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Spoils of war: Trade shocks and segmented labor markets in Spain during WWI
Fuchs, Simon - 2021
How does intranational factor mobility shape the welfare effects of a trade shock? I provide evidence that during WWI, a demand shock emanated from belligerent countries and affected neutral Spain. Within Spain, labor predominantly reallocated locally, while the most affected provinces...
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Resisting Economic Integration when Industry Location is Uncertain
Gallo, Fredrik - 2006
benchmark case with certainty about where agglomeration takes place, a majority of voters favour economic integration and the … integration is pursued. Finally, the standard view that agglomeration is unambiguously beneficial to residents in the industrial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208506
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The local origins of business formation
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John C. - 2023
What locations generate more business ideas, and where are ideas more likely to turn into businesses? Using comprehensive administrative data on business applications, we analyze the spatial disparity in the creation of business ideas and the formation of new employer startups from these ideas....
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Increasing Returns, Input-Output Linkages, and Technological Leapfrogging
Gallo, Fredrik - 2006
increasing in the benefits of agglomeration. Greater incompatibility between technologies also increases the risk of rejecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208478
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Cournot Competition, Market Size Effects and Agglomeration
Gallo, Fredrik - 2005
different regions. Lowering the trade costs beyond a critical level triggers an agglomeration of industry in the larger region …. This process of agglomeration is gradual in nature and trade costs have to be successively lowered for a full …-scale agglomeration to take place. …
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Isolation and development
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer - 2009
This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...
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Concentration in international markets: Evidence from US imports
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2019
We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it is stable by industry and country of origin. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive margin: the number of exporting firm has grown, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144227
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Trade and Agglomeration: the Strategic use of Protection Revisited
Thede, Susanna - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the strategic motive for protection present in trade and agglomeration … agglomeration industry. We first investigate unilateral trade policy effects on the international production and trade pattern and … the resulting national welfare levels in a new economic geography model including several agglomeration industries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208511
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Migration and trade: theory with an application to the Eastern-Western European integration
Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni - 2009
The remarkable increase in trade flows and in migratory flows of highly educated people are two important features of globalization of the last decades. This paper extends a two-country model of inter- and intra-industry trade to a rich environment featuring technological differences, skill...
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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
Majlesi, Kaveh; Narciso, Gaia - 2015
We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international...
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