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

Research Papers 2015

2015

GEP 15/18: Multinationals and the Globalization of R&D

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María García-Vega, Patricia Hofmann and Richard Kneller consider theoretically and empirically how the location and organization of knowledge production evolve within domestic firms during the period of their acquisition by foreign multinationals.

GEP 15/17: Population, Migration, Ageing and Health: A Survey

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Christian Dustmann, Giovanni Facchini and Cora Signorotto

GEP 15/15: FDI, Intermediate Inputs and Firm Performance: Theory and Evidence from Italy

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Michele Imbruno, Rosanna Pittiglio and Filippo Reganati

GEP 15/14: Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence

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Martyn Andrews, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward

GEP 15/12: Assessing market (dis)integration in early modern China and Europe

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Daniel Bernhofen, Markus Eberhardt, Jianan Li and Stephen Morgan revisit the question of China's level of market integration on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, finding that in contrast to the consensus in the literature Qing China experienced a secular process of market disintegration during the second half of the 18th century.

GEP 15/09: Downward Wage Rigidities in the Euro Area

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Robert Anderton and Boele Bonthuis

GEP 15/08: Inequality and Trade: A Behavioral-Economics Perspective

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Sugata Marjit and Punarjit Roychowdhury

GEP 15/07: From One to Many Central Plans: Drug Advertising Inspections and Intra-National Protectionism in China

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Markus Eberhardt, Zheng Wang and Zhihong Yu provide the first direct evidence of inter-provincial trade barriers in China in the form of discriminatory advertising inspections in the drug industry.

GEP 15/06: Off the waterfront: The long-run impact of technological change on dock workers

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Richard Upward and Zouheir El-Sahli measure the labour market outcomes of dock-workers when their occupation experienced a sudden and transformative technological change, namely the introduction of containers to UK ports.

GEP 15/05: Job and worker turnover in German establishments

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Lutz Bellmann, Hans-Dieter Gerner and Richard Upward

 

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