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This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine … the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country … than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and find that the effect of immigration on trade is a priori …
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%. Under the assumption that the same relationship between the explanatory variables and imports will hold for EMU-CEEC trade …
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The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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misalignments. Intra-regional trade - both with North Africa and the rest of the continent - together with greater orientation to …
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
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This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using … is evidence of bidirectional causality between CO2 emissions and economic growth. Economic growth and trade openness are … interrelated i.e. bidirectional causality. Feedback hypothesis is validated between trade openness and financial development …
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paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …
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. -- trade ; genotypes ; natural selection ; gene-culture coevolution …
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