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Is inequality harmful for Innovation and Growth? Price versus Market Size Effects
We introduce non-homothetic preferences into an R&D based growth model to study how demand forces shape the impact of inequality on innovation and growth. Inequality affects the incentive to innovate via a price effect and a market size effect. When innovators have a large productivity advantage over traditional producers a higher extent of inequality tends to increase innovators…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Paper Tiger? EU Trade Enforcement as if Binding Pacts Mattered.
A ground-breaking report by New Direction, the Foundation for European Reform, highlights the poor track record of the European Commission in holding trading partners to account.
The report's author, Professor Simon Evenett of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, found that the Commission only attempt to tackle 20 percent of complaints reported by European industry…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Normal Value in Anti-Dumping Proceedings against China Post-2016: Are Some Animals Less Equal Than Others?
This article attempts to show that from 12 December 2016, WTO Members can no longer use the analogue country or similar methodologies as the basis for normal value calculations in anti-dumping proceedings targeting China and should rather use Chinese domestic prices or costs. However, contrary to what some would like decision-makers to believe, this does not mean that the EU or other…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
RWebData: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web
The rise of the programmable web offers new opportunities for the empirically driven social sciences. The access, compilation and preparation of data from the programmable web for statistical analysis can, however, involve substantial up-front costs for the practical researcher. The R-package RWebData provides a high-level framework that allows data to be easily collected from the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Precise Control Over Legislative Vote Outcomes: A Forensic Approach to Political Economics
We propose a forensic approach to investigate the politico-economic forces that influence narrow vote outcomes in legislative assemblies. Applying nonparametric estimation techniques to a data set covering all roll call votes between 1990 and 2014, we can identify the existence of precise control over legislative vote outcomes in the U.S. House of Representatives. Several pieces of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2016
Leal-Arcas, Rafael, Andrew Filis, Ehab S. Abu Gosh. International Energy Governance. Selected Legal Issues, Cheltenham. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2015
BRICS Trade Strategy: Time For A Rethink. The 17th GTA Report
The term BRICS was coined by Jim O’Neill from Goldman Sachs over a decade ago. Unlike many acronyms, this one has stuck - largely because of the growing share of the world economy associated with the emerging economic powers Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa (the latter being added somewhat later.) With the greater global footprint, the policy choices of these countries…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/07/2015
Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance
Institution partenaire
English / 02/06/2015
Throwing Sand in the Wheels: How Foreign Trade Distortions Slowed LDC Export-Led Growth
This new eBook argues that least developed countries were hard hit by these barriers. Drawing on Global Trade Alert data, it argues that these barriers reduced these nations’ exports by 30% during the period 2009 to 2013 – over a quarter of a trillion US dollars in total.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/06/2015
Innovation and Trade in the Presence of Credit Constraints
This paper examines how trade liberalization affects investments in R&D at the firm level. In a model where entrepreneurs are heterogeneous in their wealth endowment, they rely differently on external funds. In the presence of capital market imperfections, this implies heterogeneous access to external funds such that poor entrepreneurs run smaller firms, are less likely to invest…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/02/2015
Media Freedom and Democracy in the Fight against Corruption
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
pvsR: An Open Source Interface to Big Data on the American Political Sphere
Digital data from the political sphere is abundant, omnipresent, and more and more directly accessible through the Internet. Project Vote Smart (PVS) is a prominent example of this big public data and covers various aspects of U.S. politics in astonishing detail. Despite the vast potential of PVS’ data for political science, economics, and sociology, it is hardly used in empirical…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2015
The Global Trade Disorder. The 16th GTA Report
Based on a massive data collection effort since the St. Petersburg G20 summit last September, in which a further 2,001 trade-related state initiatives have been documented, this report demonstrates that the resort to protectionism has been substantially higher than previously thought.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2014
The macroeconomics of Model T
We study a model of growth and mass production. Firms undertake either product innovations that introduce new luxury goods for the rich; or process innovations that transform existing luxuries into mass products for the poor. A prototypical example for such a product cycle is the automobile. Initially, an exclusive product for the very rich, the automobile became affordable to the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2014
Volatile top income shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the evolution between 1981 and 2009
Institution partenaire
English / 31/08/2014
Does Compulsory Voting Increase Support for Redistributive Policy?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2014
Trade Liberalization and Credit Constraints: Reallocations at the Firm Level
Following the idea of heterogeneous firms we examine responses to trade liberalization at the firm level in the presence of capital market imperfections. In our model, entrepreneurs differ in their wealth endowment, causing them to rely differently on external funds. With an imperfect capital market, we show that poor entrepreneurs run smaller firms, are less likely to invest in R…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2014
Rankings, Success, and Individual Performance : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This paper explores the impact of rankings on individual performance in a setting of professional athletes competing for high stakes. We use data on World Cup alpine skiing for the period of 1992-2013 and exploit arguably random differences in race times to identify the causal effect of ranking positions. Our results document a significant decrease in subsequent performance among…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2014
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