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    Contingent trade policy and economic efficiency

    This paper models the competition for a domestic market between one domestic and one foreign firm as a pricing game under incomplete cost information. As the foreign firm incurs a trade cost to serve the domes...

    Phillip McCalman, Frank Stähler, Gerald Willmann in Review of World Economics (2019)

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    Private labels and exports: trading variety for volume

    This paper explores the role of private label trade intermediation in sha** the range and diversity of exports and imports. Whereas direct sales maintain a firm’s unique product characteristics, or ‘brand eq...

    Emily Blanchard, Tatyana Chesnokova, Gerald Willmann in Review of World Economics (2017)

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    TTIP – Probleme und Chancen

    2016 soll das Abkommen zur Transatlantischen Handels- und Investitionspartnerschaft abgeschlossen werden. Die Befürworter von TTIP sind der Auffassung, dass gemeinsame Regeln, Industriestandards und Zulassungs...

    Galina Kolev, Jürgen Matthes, Peter Egger, Katharina Erhardt in Wirtschaftsdienst (2016)

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    Size versus scope: on the trade-off facing economic unions

    This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain over the deg...

    Oliver Lorz, Gerald Willmann in International Tax and Public Finance (2013)

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    Asylum seekers in Europe: the warm glow of a hot potato

    The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the European Union (EU) countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects...

    Giovanni Facchini, Oliver Lorz, Gerald Willmann in Journal of Population Economics (2006)

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    Comment on David Greenaway and Douglas R. Nelson

    In their contribution, the authors survey the literature on the political economy of trade protection and its counterpart, the literature dealing with the political economy of migration. This is a laudable end...

    Gerald Willmann in Labor Mobility and the World Economy (2006)