Xenia Matschke

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce labor market rigidities that are prevalent in continental European countries into the well-known protection for sale model proposed by Grossman and Helpman (1994), and show that contrary to commonly held views, imperfections in the labor market do not necessarily increase equilibrium trade protection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a theory of trade policy determination that incorporates the protectionist bias inherent in majoritarian systems, suggested by Grossman and Helpman (2005), and test this prediction using U.S. tariff data from 1993 and House campaign contribution data from two electoral cycles.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce labor market rigidities (such as influential trade unions and high unemployment benefits) into the well-known Grossman and Helpman (1994) protection for sale model, which has emerged as the leading model in the political economy of trade protection literature.

TL;DR: In this article, the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform, and the effect of environmental policies in a decentralized system is smaller than if these taxes are set by the federal government, and pollution emissions therefore decline.

TL;DR: The authors studied the changes in greeting behavior caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and found that after the use of handshakes and social kissing as forms of greeting decreased drastically, they became common again already a few months after the outbreak, and a consistently large proportion of respondents plan to change their greeting behavior permanently, either because they simply became used to it or because they want to avoid the danger of contracting and transmitting infectious diseases.