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International trade integration : a disaggregated approach
Chen, Natalie (contributor); Novy, Dennis (contributor) - 2009
trade barriers for manufacturing industries in European Union countries between 1999 and 2003. We find a large degree of … trade cost heterogeneity across industries. The most important trade barriers are transportation costs and policy factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867934
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Epidemic trade
Börner, Lars; Severgnini, Battista - 2011
Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we … the importance and causes of medieval trade. -- Trade ; Middle Ages ; Black Death ; Gravity model ; Poisson regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009242313
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Currency unions, trade and heterogeneity
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883779
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Return of the tariffs : the interwar trade collapse revisited
Adam, Marc Christopher - 2019
collapse of the gold standard? Using recent advances in the estimation of gravity equations, I examine the partial and general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023385
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Natural resources, demand for external finance and financial development
Hattendorff, Christian - 2014
The paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the natural resource curse, which postulates a negative link between natural resource abundance and economic growth. It shows empirically that resource-rich countries appear to have a less developed financial system and investigates a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433905
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Staggered difference-in-differences in gravity settings : revisiting the effects of trade agreements
Nagengast, Arne J.; Yotov, Yoto - 2023
structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest … that RTA estimates in the current gravity literature may be biased downward (by more than 50% in our sample). Sensitivity … and for gravity regressions on migration and FDI flows. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435475
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German wage moderation and European imbalances : feeding the global VAR with theory
Bettendorf, Timo; León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2015
German labor market reforms in the 1990s and 2000s are generally believed to have driven the large increase in the dispersion of current account balances in the Euro Area. We investigate this hypothesis quantitatively. We develop an open economy New Keynesian model with search and matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292316
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Incentives, globalization, and redistribution
Ferey, Antoine; Haufler, Andreas; Perroni, Carlo - 2022 - This version: July 2022
We offer a new explanation for why taxes have become less redistributive in many countries in parallel with an increase in income concentration. When performance-based contracts are needed to incentivize effort, redistribution through progressive income taxes becomes less precisely targeted....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014458815
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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration
Schmidt, Peter - 2012
Comparing the economic development and current situation of the internal markets of the U.S. and the EU, two things are noticeable. On the one hand, the EU is conducting massive regional policy programmes (notably the Structural Funds) to foster economic cohesion among the 27 nations belonging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515661
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Brands in motion : how frictions shape multinational production
Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883784