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FDI in Space Revisited: The Role of Spillovers on Foreign Direct Investment within the European Union
Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Jiménez-Fernández, Eduardo; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Wiley (2016)We estimate a spatial econometric interaction model for bilateral aggregate FDI stock data between 25 European Union member countries in 2010. We find evidence for spatial spillovers of foreign direct investment for three ... -
Genetic distance, cultural differences, and the formation of regional trade agreements
Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Lu, Wenxi Springer (2022)Genetic distance between countries’ populations has been shown to proxy cross-country differences in cultures and preferences. In an unbalanced panel of 133 countries from 1970 to 2012, we find that higher genetic distance ... -
Gravity with unemployment
Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Larch, Mario Elsevier (2016-05-10)Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. ... -
Income and Democracy: Evidence from System GMM Estimates
Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Langer, Julian; Larch, Mario Elsevier (2012-02-17)Does higher income cause democracy? Accounting for the dynamic nature and high persistence of income and democracy, we find a statistically significant positive relation between income and democracy for a postwar period ... -
International environmental agreements and imperfect enforcement: Evidence from CITES
Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Elsevier (2023)International environmental agreements address global environmental problems such as the decline in biodiversity. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) regulates ... -
Macroeconomic Potentials of Transatlantic Free Trade: A High Resolution Perspective for Europe and the World
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Larch, Mario; Yalcin, Erdal Oxford University Press (2015-07-03)Critics of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) dismiss its potential welfare gains as small compared with its risks. We contribute to this debate by investigating the driving forces behind ... -
Structural gravity and the gains from trade under imperfect competition: Quantifying the effects of the European Single Market
Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Stähler, Frank Elsevier (2023-11-25)The structural gravity model is the workhorse model in international trade to estimate the drivers of trade costs. We propose a new gravity estimation procedure that allows us to disentangle exogenous trade costs and ... -
The Rise of the Maquiladoras: A Mixed Blessing
Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro Wiley (2013)Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processingmaquilasector during the 1990s.Since one of the main objectives of themaquiladoraprogram was to promote formal employment, we studyhow the rapid ... -
What drives interdependence of FDI among host countries? The role of geographic proximity and similarity in public debt
Alamá Sabater, Luisa; Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Jiménez-Fernández, Eduardo; Márquez-Ramos, Laura Elsevier (2016-11)We investigate the drivers of interdependence between flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), focusing on two potential channels: interdependence between geographically close FDI destination countries, and between ...