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Costing improved water supply systems for developing countries
The aim or this paper is to present a practical manual prepared for the World Health Organization (WHO) on how to identify, collect, estimate and compare costs of the available technical options to provide access to safe drinking water in low-income communities.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
A New Measure of Tariff Preference Margins Adjusted for Import and Domestic Competition
This paper provides a new theoretically-derived measure of preference margins at the product level, that takes into account competition across exporters as well as competition with domestic producers on a given market. This indicator is derived for differentiated goods under imperfect competition, in a frame-work extended from Ottaviano, Tabuchi and Thisse (2002). We compute our...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Global versus Local Asset Pricing: A New Test of Market Integration
Should capital cost calculations be based on a global or local market benchmark? The December 2000 redefinition of the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) global equity index was a natural experiment addressing this question. It is argued that this event triggered a portfolio shift (by index funds) large enough to affect the residual asset supplies constituting the global and...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2011
Who opposes immigrants’ integration into the labor market ? The Swiss case
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Explaining fiscal balances with a simultaneous equation model of revenue and expenditure: a case study of Swiss cantons using panel data
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
The Doha Round and Market Access for LDCs: Scenarios for the EU and US Markets
Least developed countries (LDCs) hoped that the DOHA round would bring them greater market access in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries than for non-LDCs. Using HS-6 tariff level data for the United States and the EU for 2004, this paper estimates that, once the erosion from preferential access into the EU to non-LDCs is taken into account, LDCs have...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Measures of export diversification
How export patterns vary across time and countries has become a subject of intense descriptive analysis in recent years. The originality of our work is to compute usual diversification indices using a very large and disaggregated dataset on exports. Export data is from UNCTAD’s COMTRADE database at the HS6 level (4’991 lines).
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
An invariance property of quadratic forms in random vectors with a selection distribution, with application to sample variogram and covariogram estimators
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2010
Wage inequality and segregation between native and immigrant workers in Switzerland: evidence using matched employee-employer data
We analyze segregation between immigrants and natives at the firm level and explore the connection between segregation and wage inequality in Switzerland.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Labor market reforms, job instability, and the flexibility of the employment relationship
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
China and India’s challenge to Latin America : opportunity or threat?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
On crop biodiversity, risk exposure, and food security in the highland of Ethiopia
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Social inequality, local leadership and collective action: an empirical study of forest commons
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Has distance died? An update
Contrary to expectations, evidence of a death of distance has eluded numerous estimations in the popular gravity model of trade: estimates of the coefficient of distance are markedly higher in studies with recent data. This column shows that this is only so for the poorer countries who are trading with geographically closer partners. This regionalization of trade for low-income...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
The Distance Effect and the Regionalization of the Trade of Low-Income Countries
The “distance effect” measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been to be rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on the gravity model, leading observers to call it the “distance puzzle”. We review the evidence and explanations. Using an extensive data set of 124 countries over the period 1970-2005, we confirm the existence of this puzzle and identify...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
Modeling spatio-temporal wildfire ignition point patterns
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2009
L'analyse économique appliquée au droit de la concurrence
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2009
Le revenu de participation: un instrument efficace de lutte contre la pauvreté?
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2008
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