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, 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:The Transmission Mechanism in a Changing World
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; GALVAO, Ana Beatriz C.; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2003Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:The Transmission Mechanism in a Changing World
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; GALVAO, Ana Beatriz C.; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2003Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPR Discussion Paper
Title:A Trust-Driven Financial Crisis. Implications for the Future of Financial Markets
Author(s):GUISO, LuigiDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The financial crisis has brought to light diffuse opportunistic behaviour and some serious frauds. Because of this trust towards banks, bankers, brokers and the stock market has collapsed to unprecedented levels and there ...
Title:Turnout and Policy: The role of candidates
Author(s):VALASEK, Justin MattiasDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Turnout is an important determinant of which candidate wins an election. Since candidates know this, it follows that they will consider turnout when choosing their policy platforms. In this paper I formally examine the ...
Title:Turnout and Power Sharing
Author(s):HERRERA, Helios; MORELLI, MassimoDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Differences in electoral rules and/or legislative, executive or legal institutions across countries induce different mappings from election outcomes to distributions of power. We explore how these different mappings affect ...
Title:Twin Deficits, Openness and the Business Cycle
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In this paper, we study the co-movement of the government budget balance and the trade balance at business cycle frequencies. In a sample of 10 OECD countries we find that the correlation of the two time series is negative, ...