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Simulating the trade effects of the COVID-19 pandemic : scenario analysis based on quantitative trade modelling

Bekkers, Eddy; Koopman, Robert Bernard - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 45 (2022) 2, pp. 445-467

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Trade, wages, and collective bargaining : evidence from France

Carluccio, Juan; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - 2015

-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …

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Factor Analysis of International Trade Worldwide During the Economic Crisis

Spiridon, Cristian - 2013

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Quality Polarization and International Trade

Hollstein, Till F. - 2018

This paper builds a model that examines firm heterogeneity across two dimensions: productivity and quality. We show that when firms are able to choose their input quality and there exists a negative relationship between a firm's product quality and their marginal cost, this can lead to a...

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Firms in international trade

Díez, Federico J.; Mora, Jesse; Spearot, Alan C. - 2016 - This version: December 2016

, focusing on how firms select into exporting, and how firms respond to international shocks. Finally, we turn to a "real world …

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Gravity-Defying Trade

Santos Silva, J. M.C; Tenreyro, Silvana - 2005

Although economists have long been aware of Jensen's inequality, many econometric applications have neglected an important implication of it: estimating economic relationships in logarithms can lead to significant biases in the presence of heteroskedasticity. This paper explains why this problem...

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International Trade and Innovation

Akcigit, Ufuk; Melitz, Marc - 2022

This chapter was prepared for the Handbook of International Economics (Vol. 5) edited by Gita Gopinath, Elhanan Helpman, and Kenneth Rogoff. We provide a review of the recent literature —both theoretical and empirical — analyzing the multi-dimensional connections between globalization and...

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Effects of a Humanitarian WTO Social Clause on Welfare and North-South Trade Flows

Flasbarth, Axel; Lips, Markus - 2003

equilibrium model of world trade (GTAP). Our finding is that developed countries have little incentive for protectionist misuse of … better enforcement of labour standards in the south to correct vertical distribution effects of world trade in the north are …

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Potential economic effects of a global trade conflict : projecting the medium-run effects with the WTO global trade model

Bekkers, Eddy; Teh, Robert - 2019 - Manuscript date: 7 March 2019

The WTO Global Trade Model is employed to project the medium-run economic effects of a global trade conflict. The trade conflict scenario is based on recent estimates in the literature of the difference between cooperative and non-cooperative tariffs. The study provides three main insights....

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Heterogeneous firms, trade, and economic policy: Insights from a simple two-sector model

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011

The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...

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