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Sectorial border effects in the European Single Market

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to explain the relation between the Border Effect and industrial concentration. This is achieved by founding this relation on the Home Market Effect and testing the robustness of this foundation through an application to the European Single Market. A sectorial...

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Is China climbing up the quality ladder?

Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...

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is it really a threat to wages in the west?

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …

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Trade costs, openness and productivity

Lejour, Arjan; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo; Rodriguez, Victor; … - 2009

This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts from the heterogeneous firms literature suggests that firms face market entry costs for each new product they export and to each new export market. Transport costs, border costs...

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Inflation, factor substitution and growth

Klump, Rainer - 2003

Recent empirical studies on the inflation-growth-relationship underline that inflation has negative growth effects already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining such a pattern. It is shown in this paper that this...

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21st CEIES Seminar : Innovation statistics more than R & D indicators ; Athens, 10 and 11 April 2003

Europäische Kommission / Statistisches Amt - 2003

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Evaluation of the EU Support to Research and Innovation for Development in Partner Countries (2007 - 2013) : Final Report ; Volume 1 – Main Report

Mackie, James (contributor) - PARTICIP GmbH Consultants für Entwicklung und Umwelt, … - 2016

) provided to Research and Innovation (R&I) in partner countries during the last EU budget period (2007-2013). …

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11th European Development Fund (2014 - 2020) : National Indicative Programme for the Republic of Mauritius

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion … - 2016

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Indeterminacy and search theory

Giammarioli, Nicola - 2003

This paper investigates a dynamic general equilibrium model with search. In particular, search externalities are reßected by an increasing returns to scale matching function, which may imply an indeterminate equilibrium. Hence, the model is capable to generate business ßuctuations, driven by...

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Temporary shocks and unavoidable transitions to a high-unemployment regime

Den Haan, Wouter J. - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment rate) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large enough shocks initiate unavoidable transitions from one regime to the other. The...

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