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Which Sectors of a Modern Economy are Most Central?

Bloechl, Florian - 2010

We analyze input-output matrices for a wide set of countries as weighted directed networks. These graphs contain only 47 nodes, but they are almost fully connected and many have nodes with strong self-loops. We apply two measures: random walk centrality and one based on count-betweenness. Our...

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The Elasticity of Trade : Estimates and Evidence

Simonovska, Ina - 2011

Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with … respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate …-flow data for 123 countries in the year 2004 yields a trade elasticity of roughly four, nearly fifty percent lower than Eaton …

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Testing the Tax Competition Theory : How Elastic are National Tax Bases in OECD Countries?

Riedl, Aleksandra - 2013

To what extent do countries' corporate income tax (CIT) rates attract foreign tax bases? What are the revenue implications of a unilateral tax reduction when tax bases are internationally mobile? These questions are explored using a panel of annual data from 17 OECD countries spanning the period...

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Migration and Trade

Egger, Peter - 2011

elasticity of trade to migration is quite high, and it declines to zero at about 4,000 immigrants. If migration stocks exceed …

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Paying Postage : Estimating the Elasticity of Voter Turnout

Schelker, Mark - 2017

In the aftermath of elections or ballots, the legitimacy of the result is regularly debated if voter turnout was considered to be low. Hence, discussions about legal reforms to increase turnout are common in most democracies. We analyze the impact of a very small change in voting costs on voter...

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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone : Will There Be Any Gain after the Pain of Internal Devaluation?

Adam, Antonis - 2014

bracketed in the interval [0.05, 0.80], with the (un-weighted) mean elasticity across the various methods ranging from 0.26 to 0 …

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Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021

confirm recent evidence providing a solution to the “distance-elasticity puzzle,” but show that these estimates of the … phase-ins of agreements, lagged terms-of-trade effects, reverse causality, various estimation techniques, disaggregation …

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Estimating Labour Supply Elasticities Based on Cross-Country Micro Data : A Bridge Between Micro and Macro Estimates?

Jäntti, Markus - 2014

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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Supply, Demand and Monetary Policy Shocks in a Multi-Country New Keynesian Model

Dées, Stéphane - 2013

. We discuss estimation of impulse response functions and variance decompositions in such large systems, and present …

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Short-Term Price Effects of a Carbon Tax and Implications for Sectors Competitiveness in Small Open Economies

Gonne, Nicolas - 2021

Asymmetric climate policies are expected to distort the level-playing field regarding international trade, singularly to the detriment of small open economies. The paper develops a flexible method that provides essential input regarding the design of offsetting measures. It builds on...

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