-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international achievement micro data, this paper estimates student …-level international education production functions. The use of teacher salary adjustments for outstanding performance is significantly …

international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these …In the basic model of international environmental agreements (IEAs) (Barrett 1994, Rubio and Ulph 2006) extended by … coalitions are Stackelberg leaders and set tariffs in addition to their cap-and-trade schemes. Surprisingly, these smaller IEAs …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard … distribution of industrial activity becomes less likely. Hence, financial market development has opposite regional implications as … trade liberalization. While the former leads to more dispersion of economic activity across space, the latter tends to drive …

We investigate the theoretical relationship between wage concentration and international market integration. Access to … on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …

regional inequality. Geography, mobility and trade openness are also highly important. …This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light … data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where …

negative, but they are also influenced most by the global financial crisis. Finally, we find a significant link between trade …