Search Results - "Kohler, Wilhelm"

Exploring the Intensive and Extensive Margins of World Trade by Felbermayr, Gabriel J., Kohler, Wilhelm

“…World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time (intensive margin). But trade may also…”
Get full text

Aspects of International Fragmentation by Kohler, Wilhelm

“…The paper uses a specific‐factors framework to address efficiency and distributional implications of international fragmentation which is driven by a low…”
Get full text

Restrictive immigration policy in Germany: pains and gains foregone? by Felbermayr, Gabriel, Geis, Wido, Kohler, Wilhelm

“…Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these…”
Get full text

Heterogeneous workers, trade, and migration by Heiland, Inga, Kohler, Wilhelm

“…We analyze the welfare effects of trade and migration, focusing on two-sided horizontal heterogeneity among workers and firms. Horizontal (skill-type)…”
Get full text

Productivity and firm boundaries by Kohler, Wilhelm, Smolka, Marcel

“…We use property rights theory to study the effect of productivity on the trade-off between vertical integration and outsourcing at the firm-level. We develop a…”
Get full text

Offshoring under uncertainty by Kohler, Wilhelm, Kukharskyy, Bohdan

“…We develop a theoretical framework explaining firms’ offshoring decisions in the presence of uncertainty. Our model highlights the role of labor market…”
Get full text

Trade in tasks: Revisiting the wage and employment effects of offshoring by Kohler, Wilhelm, Wrona, Jens

“…We examine conditions under which offshoring of labour tasks raises domestic wages and employment. Existing literature emphasizes that absorption of job…”
Get full text

Global sourcing and firm selection by Kohler, Wilhelm, Smolka, Marcel

“…We analyze the sourcing strategies of firms active in the Spanish manufacturing sector. We show that firms that select strategies of vertical integration and…”
Get full text

Pandemics, public policy, and Peltzman effects by Dietrich, Alexander, Kohler, Wilhelm, Müller, Gernot

“…Abstract Against the backdrop of Covid-19, we study the effectiveness of public policies typically employed to fight an epidemic. We extend the compartmental…”
Get full text

The economics of investor protection: ISDS versus national treatment by Kohler, Wilhelm, Stähler, Frank

“…Investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) are supposed to protect foreign investors against domestic policies causing “unjustified” harm. This paper…”
Get full text

Risk sharing in currency unions: The migration channel by Kohler, Wilhelm, Müller, Gernot J., Wellmann, Susanne

“…International risk sharing insulates consumption from country-specific business-cycle fluctuations. This matters for countries in currency unions who lack…”
Get full text

An adverse social welfare effect of a doubly gainful trade by Stark, Oded, Zawojska, Ewa, Kohler, Wilhelm, Szczygielski, Krzysztof

“…Acknowledging individuals' distaste for low relative income renders trade less appealing when trade is viewed as a technology that integrates economies by…”
Get full text

Modelling the Extensive Margin of World Trade: New Evidence on GATT and WTO Membership by Felbermayr, Gabriel, Kohler, Wilhelm

“…Recent literature has argued that, contrary to the results of a seminal paper by Rose (2004), General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade…”
Get full text

International outsourcing and factor prices with multistage production by Kohler, Wilhelm

“…We develop a dual representation of the technology of international fragmentation for an industry using 2 factors in a continuum of stages. We then derive a…”
Get full text

Managerial versus Production Wages: Offshoring, Country Size, and Endowments by Benz, Sebastian, Kohler, Wilhelm

“…We explore the role of trade in differentiated final goods as well as offshoring of tasks for inequality both within and between countries, emphasizing the…”
Get full text

Modelling the Extensive Margin of World Trade: New Evidence on GATT and WTO Membership: WTO MEMBERSHIP AND WORLD TRADE by Felbermayr, Gabriel, Kohler, Wilhelm

Get full text

A specific-factors view on outsourcing by Kohler, Wilhelm

“…A distinctive feature of the present wave of economic globalization is that the principle of world-wide arbitrage is increasingly applied to individual…”
Get full text

The “Lisbon Goal” of the EU: Rhetoric or Substance? by Kohler, Wilhelm

“…This paper explores the relationship between the rhetoric of the Lisbon Goal of the EU and key insights from trade theory and growth theory. It argues that the…”
Get full text

Eastern enlargement of the EU: a comprehensive welfare assessment by Kohler, Wilhelm

“…The paper derives an equation explaining the various welfare effects of an eastern EU enlargement for an incumbent country. It then quantifies these effects…”
Get full text

The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism: Battlefield or Cooperation? A Commentary on Fritz Breuss by Kohler, Wilhelm

“…EU-US trade disputes have recently caught much attention, because they have involved lasting non-compliance coupled with WTO-authorized retaliation. A recent…”
Get full text