Title:Trade Interdependence and the International-Business Cycle
Author(s):CANOVA, Fabio; DELLAS, H.Date:1993Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A stochastic general equilibrium model of the world economy is developed to analyze the contribution of trade interdependence to international business cycles. We test some of the implications of the model using data from ...
Title:Trade Liberalization, Competition and Growth
Author(s):LICANDRO, Omar; NAVAS-RUIZ, AntonioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The aim of this paper is to understand whether international trade ma
enhance innovation and growth through an increase in competition. We de
velop a two-country endogenous growth model, both countries producing th
same ...
Title:Trade Liberalization, Firm Selection, and Variety Growth
Author(s):AGUR, ItaiDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Recent empirical findings indicate that when trade is liberalized both firm selection takes place and product variety increases. Each of these two stylized facts has its own seminal theory. But how can they arise together? ...
Title:Trade Liberalization, Offshoring and Firm Heterogeneity
Author(s):REBEYROL, VincentDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization in a model where heterogeneous firms can freely offshore their production. Firms choose whether to produce, and if so whether to sell on the domestic market only or ...
Title:Trade Liberalization, Offshoring and Firm Heterogeneity
Author(s):REBEYROL, VincentDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization in a model where heterogeneous firms can freely offshore their production. Firms choose whether to produce, and if so whether to sell on the domestic market only or ...
Title:Trade Mark Paradoxes in European Brand Competition
Author(s):GRANMAR, ClaesDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The development of a uniform European trade mark law regime has taken so many different paths over the past decades that the state of the law is now more or less incomprehensible to everyone. The regime is primarily shaped ...
Title:Trade Regionalisation and Openness in Africa
Author(s):IAPADRE, Lelio; LUCHETTI, FrancescaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The intensity of trade among countries belonging to the same region depends not only on the existence
and effectiveness of a regional integration agreement, but also on other factors, which include the
overall trade ...
Title:Trade Roundtable
Author(s):MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; ABBOTT, Roderick; CRAMÉR, Per; HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MOREIRA, VitalDate:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:The Doha round has been stalling for over 10 years now. It might not be ‘dead and loving it’ but definitely in moribund condition. Worse, there is no sign of reviving it, in the near future at least. The most optimistic ...
Title:Trade Union Activists, East and West: Comparisons in multinational companies
Author(s):MEARDI, GuglielmoDate:2000Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This is a clearly constructed, well-documented and creatively researched contribution to a new subject of considerable interest. It examines the different perspectives of trade-union activists in western and eastern European ...
Title:Trade Union Consciousness, East and West: A Comparison of Fiat Factories in Poland and Italy
Author(s):MEARDI, GuglielmoDate:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article presents the first results of a qualitative research project examining trade union activists at Fiat factories in Italy and Poland. It discusses two issues: first, whether it is possible to find any common ...
Title:Trade Unions and New Member State Workers in Germany and the UK
Author(s):ZAHN, RebeccaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article compares German and British trade union responses in a European context following the European enlargements in 2004 and 2007 that are unprecedented in the history of the European Union (EU). In particular, ...
Title:Trade Unions in the EU Facing Global Companies: Legal Obstacles and Innovations
Author(s):MOREAU, Marie-Ange; BLAS-LOPEZ, Maria EstherDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In the European Union, a set of legal instruments was developed to enhance social
partners’ actions. Here, we consider whether these instruments encourage, at
Community level, efficient trade union actions in response ...