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Unionized oligopoly, trade liberalization and location choice
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)In a two-country reciprocal dumping model, with one country unionized, we analyze how wage setting and firm location are influenced by trade liberalization. We show that trade liberalization can induce FDI, which is at ... -
Responsibility and reward
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-09)It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of factors under our control are partly affected by factors outside our control. One way to approach this issue is to ask ... -
International capital mobility and the taxation of portfolio investments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-06)This paper provides an overview of problems related to the taxation of portfolio investments in an open economy. It starts by outlining empirical results on how taxation affects household portfolio structure and proceeds ... -
Industrial clusters : equilibrium, welfare, and policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-08)This paper studies the size and number of industrial clusters that will arise in a multi-country world in which one sector has a propensity to cluster because of increasing returns to scale. It compares the equilibrium ... -
Relative wages and trade-induced changes in technology
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-09)We develop a model where trade liberalization leads to skill-biased technological change, which in turn raises the relative return to skilled labor. When firms get access to a larger market, the relative profitability of ... -
Taxation and tournaments
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-05)This paper analyzes the effects of progressive taxes on labour supply and income distribution in the context of the rank-order tournament model originally developed by Lazear and Rosen (1981). We show conditions under ... -
Multinational investment, industry risk, and policy competition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)In an uncertain business climate, multinational enterprises must take account of future exit costs in deciding where to locate a branch plant. We study how differences in national labour-market conditions between countries ... -
Sticks and carrots for the alleviation of long-term poverty
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)Work requirements can make it easier to screen the poor from the nonpoor. They can also affect future poverty by changing the poors’ incentive to invest in their income capacity. The novelty of our study is the focus ... -
Globalisation and the welfare state : more inequality – less redistribution?
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-02)This paper considers the possible connection between globalisation and inequality in Western welfare states. There are a number of theoretical reasons why increased trade and factor mobility should lead to more inequality ... -
The broadband access market : competition, uniform pricing and geographical coverage
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)In this paper we analyze the market for broadband access. A key feature of this market is that it is considerably more expensive to connect consumers in rural locations than in urban locations. We show that while competition ... -
Industrial clusters, asymmetric information and policy design
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12)Recently there has been some attention on the issue of industrial clusters and industrial policy claiming that there are arguments in favour of subsidising special industries in order to stimulate industrial agglomeration. ... -
Infrastructure and industrial location : a dual technology approach
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)The paper investigates how differences in infrastructure quality may affect industrial location between countries. Employing a dualtechnology model, the main result of the paper is the somewhat surprising conclusion ... -
On the profitability of cross-border mergers
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)A horizontal merger is unlikely to be profitable unless it involves the large majority of firms in an industry. This well established result was developed by Salant et al (1983) in a closed economy setting. The present ... -
Commodity market integration 1850 - 1913 : evidence from Britain and Germany
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)In a sample that contains annual prices of 39 selected commodities in Britain and Germany in the period 1850 to 1913 substantial evidence of well integrated commodity markets is found. The degree of integration is not ... -
International aspects of public goods provision
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-02)This paper considers the extension of the theory of public consumption goods to an international context with public goods whose benefits are global. In one version of the model there are no restrictions on lump sum ... -
A balanced view of development as freedom
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-10)Amartya Sen, in his most recent book Development as Freedom, argues that expansion of human freedom should both be viewed as the primary end and the principle means of development. This paper provides an overview and a ... -
Regional growth in Western Europe : an empirical exploration of interactions with agriculture and agricultural policy
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-01)Studies of convergence of regional growth in Western Europe have given varying results, depending on the addition of conditioning variables and estimation methods, as well as underlying models. This exploration adds ... -
Entry in telecommunication : customer loyalty, price sensitivity and access prices
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-07)The purpose of this article is to investigate the prospects for entry into an existing network in the telecommunication industry, and how public policy may promote a more competitive outcome. We apply a model that captures ... -
Social origins of a work ethic : norms, mobility and urban unemployment
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)Neighbourhood effects and worker mobility have been proposed as explanations for the pattern of employment in cities. This paper presents a the oretical framework within which the joint impact of these two factors can ... -
Decentralization and the fate of minorities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12)This paper analyses the welfare effects of a change from centralized to decentralized political authority. The potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather “extreme” ...