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Colonial wars and trade restrictions: Fighting for exclusive trading rights
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a model of colonial wars and trade restrictions, in which two metropolises compete for control over a colony's trade policy. In equilibrium, the metropolis that gains control can improve its terms of trade by restricting its rival's access to colonial trade.
Ivan G. Lopez Cruz, Gustavo Torrens
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A Spatial Explanation for the Balassa-Samuelson Effect [PDF]
We propose a simple spatial model to explain why the price level is higher in rich countries. There are two sectors: manufacturing, which is freely tradable, and non-tradable services, which have to locate near customers in big cities.
Miklós Koren, Péter Karádi
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Clinical Oral Implants Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives This laboratory study investigated the effect of two different retentive heights of Ti‐base abutments (3.5 and 5.5 mm) and crown heights (13 and 16 mm) on the load at failure and survival of monolithic zirconia implant‐supported crowns replacing a maxillary central incisor.
Esha Zahid +5 more
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The Politics of Passage: Studying Checkpoints and Claim Making in Conflict‐affected Settings
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Roadblocks, or checkpoints, are obligatory passage points that are erected by entities claiming authority over a given crossing. They are often the most common everyday interface between civilians and armed actors in conflict‐affected contexts, but are overlooked in studies on either trade or authority amidst conflict.
Peer Schouten +4 more
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Defining the geographical level of competition: a taxonomy of industry tradability
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract The paper develops a taxonomy of industry tradability to define the geographical level at which competition takes place. First, it creates a novel dataset that combines production and international trade data for both goods and services industries, defined at a detailed (3‐digit) level of industry aggregation for 15 European countries.
Sara Calligaris +4 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThe labour movement has been a key factor for cities’ development and caused regional inequality between cities. Although empirical studies have been conducted to investigate it, little theoretical evidence has been provided to find out the underlying ...
Tiange Qi, Yuning Gao, Yongjian Huang
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The Role of Bank Restructuring in Recovering from Crises: Mexico 1995-98 [PDF]
In this paper we analyze the evolution of the Mexican economy between 1995 and 1998. The remarkable quick recovery seen in aggregate activity has not been uniform across the economy.
Aaron Tornell, Anne Krueger
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Can Productivity Increases in the Distribution Sector Help Explain Tendency of the Turkish Lira to Appreciate? [PDF]
, 2013 The Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis relies on the productivity differentials between tradable and non-tradable sectors to explain deviations in purchasing power parity. Within this framework, the relative productivity differences in tradable vis-à-vis
Burgaç, Almıla +2 more
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Dutch disease, unemployment and structural change
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract We find that Dutch disease effects on unemployment are small even in a commodity‐rich economy like Australia. Using an estimated open‐economy model with frictional unemployment, we quantify how business‐cycle shocks and structural changes shape aggregate unemployment.
Mariano Kulish +3 more
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Endogenous non-tradable earnings and households’ demand for risky assets
, 2014 Using French survey data, we explore empirically whether earnings uncertainty and borrowing constraints decrease households demand for risky assets, consistent with theoretical predictions. A major empirical problem is the potential endogeneity bias of income risk, as more risk averse households may simultaneously choose safer occupations and invest ...
Arrondel, Luc, Calvo-Pardo, Hector
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