International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006 The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on the empirical part o...

Hyperplane arrangements are very interesting combinatorial objects and many results can be found in the literature. For instance, several papers [1, 2, 6, 7] are concerned with the characteristic polynomials and the number of regions of a hyperplane arrangement. In his paper [9], Stanley reviewed various hyperplane arrangements raising interesting questions, one of which is related to the follo...

We give a condition for an operator A deened on a product space E which ensures that it can be represented in matrix form. Combining this representation with our earlier work on one-sided coupled operator matrices we can characterize various operator-theoretical properties of A in terms of its matrix entries. 1. The Matrix Representation In a series of papers, see e.g. Nag89], Nag90], EH96], En...

Under the assumptions that the matrix A(u) = DF(u) is strictly hyperbolic and its eigenvalues are genuinely non linear or linearly degenerate, the global existence of a solution u : [0,+∞) 7→ R for small BV initial data has first been proved in [18]. The uniqueness of solutions and their Lipschitz dependence in L w.r.t. the initial data has been established in a series of papers [9, 11, 12, 13,...

When I read your term papers, I look for your ability to motivate your question using economic logic, your ability to critically analyze the past literature, and your ability to recognize empirical problems as they arise. In particular, it is important that your term paper demonstrates that you are more knowledgeable, analytic, and sophisticated about the economics of health or development econ...

This paper investigates the relationship between tariff and growth in the Australian economy over the period from 1871 to 2002. The study is motivated by the debate on the apparent ‘tariff-growth paradox’, a sign switch in the link between tariff rate and growth between the first and second episodes of globalization in world history, established from cross-country growth regressions. The long a...