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Offshoring and heterogeneous firms: One job offshored, one job lost?

Bourtchouladze, Nana - 2007

Offshoring has gained a significant momentum in recent years. Firm size appears to be the leading factor … differentiating firms that offshore from those that do not. We present a model that blends offshoring, or trade in tasks, with a … firm heterogeneity offers new tools for analyzing the effects of offshoring on the employment dynamics within an individual …

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A Schumpeterian Model of Protection and Relative Wages

Dinopoulos, Elias; Segerstrom, Paul - 1996

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of trade between two advanced countries in which both innovation and skilled acquisition rates are endogenously determined. The model offers a North-North (as opposed to a North-South) trade explanation for increasing relative wage...

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations, People's Republic of China, and India growth and the rest of the world: The role of trade

Lawrence, Robert Z. - 2013

This paper explores the impact of past and future growth in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)1 Since the mid-1990s, ACI growth has improved the non-oil terms of trade of the developed countries. There have also been strong complementarities between ACI suppliers of intermediate...

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Non-homothetic preferences, parallel imports and the extensive margin of international trade

Foellmi, Reto; Hepenstrick, Christian; Zweimüller, Josef - 2010

We study international trade in a model where consumers have non-homothetic preferences and where household income restricts the extensive margin of consumption. In equilibrium, monopolistic producers set high (low) prices in rich (poor) countries but a threat of parallel trade restricts the...

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Trade and growth in an unequal global economy

Kohler, Andreas - 2012

This paper studies the patterns of trade and the incentives to innovate in an unequal global economy. We introduce non-homothetic preferences in a general-equilibrium model of endogenous growth and international trade between two countries, and argue that the effects of market integration on the...

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The development implications of external integration in Latin America

Ocampo, José Antonio - 2012

This paper analyses the links between the integration into the international economy and development in Latin America over the past quarter century. It argues that external liberalization led to faster export growth but not to faster GDP or productivity growth. Growth also became more volatile,...

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What determines top income shares? Evidence from the twentieth century

Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007

This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...

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Trade, Reallocations and Productivity: A Bridge between Theory and Data in Öresund

Åkerman, Anders - 2009

The paper estimates the causal effect of trade liberalisation on aggregate productivity through mechanisms related to firm selection. The construction of a bridge in 2000 across the Öresund Strait linking Copenhagen with Malmö, Sweden's third largest city, provided a natural experiment with...

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Environmental policy in an integrated world economy

Schulze, Günther G.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 1998

This paper critically assesses the literature on the relationship between economic integration and the environment. In particular, we investigate how trade liberalisation and capital market integration affect environmental policy and thus environmental quality. Conversely, we also study how...

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Trade openness, gains from variety and government spending

Hanslin, Sandra - 2010

This paper investigates empirically the effect of import diversity on government size and provides evidence for the love of variety effect on government spending described in Hanslin (2008). I argue that crowding out of firms is an important cost of public good provision. However, due to the...

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