Nottingham Centre for Research on
Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)

Research Papers 2016

2016

GEP 16/20: Countering public opposition to immigration: the impact of information campaigns

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Giovanni Facchini, Yotam Margalit and Hiroyuki Nakata

GEP 16/19: Wage adjustment and employment in Europe

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Petra Marotzke, Robert Anderton, Ana Bairrao, Clémence Berson and Peter Tóth

GEP 16/18: Does the elimination of export requirements in special economic zones affect export performance? Evidence from the Dominican Republic

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Fabrice Defever, José-Daniel Reyes, Alejandro Riaño and Miguel Eduardo Sánchez-Martín wanted to know if the elimination of export share requirements in special economic zones (SEZ) in the Dominican Republic affected the importance of exports originating from SEZ.

GEP 16/17: International trade and risk aversion elasticities

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Udo Broll and Soumyatanu Mukherjee

GEP 16/13: How Much Is That Star in the Window? Professorial Salaries and Research Performance in UK Universities

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Gianni De Fraja, Giovanni Facchini and John Gathergood investigate the relationship between professorial salaries and research performance in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.

GEP 16/12: Does the US EXIM Bank Really Promote US Exports?

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Natasha Agarwal and Zheng Wang

GEP 16/11: Information Communication Technologies and Firm Performance: Evidence for UK Firms

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Tim De Stefano, Richard Kneller and Jonathan Timmis explore the effects of communication-ICT on the performance of firms in the UK.

GEP 16/09: Financial System Architecture and the Patterns of International Trade

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Emmanuel Amissah, Spiros Bougheas, Fabrice Defever and Rod Falvey examine how financial systems affect the patterns of international trade.

GEP 16/08: Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade

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Holger Breinlich, Volker Nocke and Nicolas Schutz explore the conflicts arising between antitrust authorities from the merger decisions of internationally active firms.

GEP 16/07: From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization

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Holger Breinlich, Anson Soderbery and Greg C. Wright

GEP 16/05: Trade, firm selection, and innovation: the competition channel

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Giammario Impullitti and Omar Licandro presents an analysis of the welfare gains originating from pro-competitive effects of trade liberalization in an economy with heterogeneous firms, variable markups and endogenous growth.

GEP 16/04 Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

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Gabriel Felbermayr, Giammario Impullitti and Julien Prat study the implications of labor and product market reforms on wage inequality in an open economy model with search frictions and firm heterogeneity.

GEP 16/02 Globalisation and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in China

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Chris Milner, Juliane Scheffel and Feicheng Wang

GEP 16/01 Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality

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Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari and Konstantinos Tatsiramos

 

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