is costlier for workers to become unemployed and, hence, allows them to reduce overall agency costs. In the unique robust …

We test the hypothesis that higher economic development is associated with lower trade costs. Using different methods … then construct provincial trade cost elasticities. Italian provinces are heterogeneous with respect to trade costs. The two … versions of GE are qualitatively the same but quantitatively different suggesting that other factors than trade costs are at …

, is difficult to observe and costly to verify. We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability … increased travel times or costs of information gathering …

investigate the question of how significant the heterogeneity in the costs of Very High Capacity (VHC) networks in Germany … actually is and whether and how the costs for Very High Capacity (VHC) networks differ between urban and rural regions. In the … costs of Very High Capacity (VHC) access networks, we use the results of a detailed bottom-up modelling of an FTTH network …