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The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of …
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This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of …. Atlantic trade and colonialism affected Europe both directly, and indirectly by inducing institutional changes. In particular …, thus enabling new merchants in these countries to benefit from Atlantic trade. Therefore, the Rise of Europe was largely …
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Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production...
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empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that cover the path of layoffs and quits through its …
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This paper introduces a new cost dataset for a commercial aircraft firm and uses this data to analyze the dynamics of … learning in commercial aircraft production. This dataset is found to be inconsistent with the simple learning hypothesis, and … some, but not all, of a firm's production experience transfers from one generation of an aircraft to the next. This …
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This paper studies the efficiency with which physical capital can be reallocated across sectors. It presents a model of a firm selling specialized capital in a thin resale market. The model predicts that the selling price depends not only on the sectoral specificity of capital, but also on the...
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over the past decade both in the United States and in Europe. In response, economists have developed models to help policy …
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global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a, b) of trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid wage Europe …
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the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …
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(GATT) in promoting economic recovery and growth in Europe in the decade after World War II. The formation of the GATT does …
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