[PDF] Top 20 Essays on Trade, Productivity and Specialization

... that trade liberalization is a policy reform essential to promoting growth, a large number of developing countries undertook important trade reforms during the last quarter of the 20th ...Wacziarg ... See full document

... the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory (Bradley et ...Myers and Majluf 1984; Titman and Wessels 1988; Frank and Goyal 2008, 2009) are common to non-financial ...discipline ... See full document

... focuses on firm dynamics and international trade, and the link between ...done on firm dynamics, especially on productivity, firms’ growth and ...focused on ... See full document

... A trade-off between employment and productivity has been at work in Spain in the last ...lower productivity growths in the regions with higher employment growth ...based on large ... See full document

... concerned on in‡ation and output stabilization reduces the response of variables in the face of a technology ...a trade-o¤ between output and in‡ation stabilization ...capital, and ... See full document

... high specialization in service activities, like ...Strategy and the Horizon 2020 Strategy points out the importance of R&D and innovation ...labour productivity growth has shown their ... See full document

... International Trade and Firm Dynamics, and the con- nection between ...countries trade? In particular, what do we gain by living in an economy with very little barriers to trade? How ... See full document

... firm productivity is measured in the analysis, being pro- ductivity the main theoretical determinant of firm export ...of productivity I take the distance between firm and sector average labor ... See full document

... of productivity will have high levels of income, which increases the number of varieties among the heterogeneous goods ...agglomeration and dispersion e¤ects posed by the standard theory of HME, but via ... See full document

... builds on theoretical studies of the problem of delegation of authority within ...classical trade-off is that of the costly state-verification ...Aghion and Tirole (1997) show that principals (firm ... See full document

... in productivity, it has also made evident some of the limits of the Helpman-Krugman-Heckscher-Ohlin ...no trade costs, within the conditional factor price equalization set there is no direct connection ... See full document

... labor and economic specialization have been consid- ered fundamental to comparative economic ...increasing trade, productivity, innovation and economic growth, as well as to their ... See full document

... agreement on how these weights should be ...distance and commercial relations being the principal types considered in the ...(Aiello and Cardamore, ...relies on the idea that the greater the ... See full document

... labor productivity declines given the higher ...consumption and invest- ment (the latter is generated by a monetary rule that reacts with a coefficient bigger than one on ...inflation). On the ... See full document

... expenditures on early education due to its redistributive ...endogenous and households vote via prob- abilistic ...age and level of education across countries to explain variations in education ... See full document

... literature on language, bilingualism and child de- velopment has highlighted the role of mother tongue instruction on cognitive development of children (Cummins 1978b, 1979, 1981, 1984, Wong Fillmore ... See full document

... quality and child’s own ability are the sole determi- nants of student’s ...analysis on the role of vouchers in allowing poor families to invest an efficient amount in their children’s ...ability and ... See full document

... Doerrenberg and Peichl, 2014; Wolff and Zacharias, 2007) generally views fiscal policy as a measure to address growing income inequality, which is a widespread concern nowadays ...Saiki and Frost, ... See full document

... AMEX and NASDAQ into 5 equally weighted portfolios by their Amihud Illiquidity ...most and least liquid assets and estimate the 3 Fama-French factor ...portfolio, and a negative size ... See full document

... aggressive on inflation even at the cost of higher output gap volatility, (2) optimal policy under learning qualitatively resembles optimal policy under rational expectations when the Central Bank is able to ... See full document