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Estimating border effects : the impact of spatial aggregation

Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Novy, Dennis - 2016

relative cost of trading within borders. The cost of trading across borders therefore appears relatively smaller. This …

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The costs and benefits of rules of origin in modern free trade agreements

Ornelas, Emanuel; Turner, John L. - 2022

We study the welfare impact of rules of origin in free trade agreements where final-good producers source customized inputs from suppliers within the trading bloc. We employ a property-rights framework that features hold-up problems in suppliers' decisions to invest, and where underinvestment is...

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Market access and the arrow of time

Klein, Marius; Rauch, Ferdinand - 2023

We revisit the natural experiments of division and unification of Germany now that more time has passed and more data have become available. We show that local market access shocks are not symmetric in time. The negative shock to local market access following the division of Germany lead to a...

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Breaking invisible barriers : does fast internet improve access to input markets?

Demir, Banu; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Panigrahi, … - 2024

This paper explores how improved internet infrastructure impacts supply chains and economic activity, focusing on Türkiye. Using the expansion of fiber-optic networks and firm-to-firm transaction data, we find that better connectivity shifts input sourcing to well-connected regions and...

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Are your labor shares set in Beijing? : the view through the lens of global value chains

Reshef, Ariell; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

We study the evolution of labor shares in 1995-2014, while taking into account international trade based on value added concepts. Declines in labor shares accelerate in 2001-2007, concurrently with global value chain (GVC) integration, after which there is no trend for both. We develop a...

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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade flows : evidence from a dynamic panel model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

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Worker-specific effects of globalisation

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2009

This paper sets up a general equilibrium model, in which firms are heterogeneous due to productivity differences and workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their factor return is sufficiently high. With the wage considered to be fair by workers depending on the...

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Tear down this wall : on the persistence of borders in trade

Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009

Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the … one generation (between 33 and 40 years or more) to remove the impact of political borders on trade. This finding strongly …

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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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Is the international border effect larger than the domestic border effect? : evidence from U.S. trade

Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Novy, Dennis - 2009

Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders …. -- international border effects ; intranational home bias ; domestic borders ; gravity ; trade costs …

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