Skip to main content

Results

You searched for:

Keyword: aggregation; 

4 results found.

Search again

Return to Latest Publications

CEP discussion paper
Aggregation and the gravity equation

One of the most successful empirical relationships in international trade is the gravity equation, which relates bilateral trade flows between an origin and destination to bilateral trade frictions, origin characteristic...Read more...

Stephen J. Redding and David E. Weinstein

16 January 2019

CEP discussion paper
Was Germany Ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade 1885-1933

This paper asks whether Germany was ever an economically integrated area. I explore the geography of trade costs in a new data set of about 40,000 observations on regional trade flows within and across the borders of Ger...Read more...

Nikolaus Wolf

May 2008

CEP discussion paper
A Test Between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random...Read more...

Melvyn Coles and Barbara Petrongolo

June 2003

CEP discussion paper
Looking Into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function

We survey the microfoundations, empirical evidence and estimation issues underlying the aggregate matching function. Several microeconomic matching mechanisms have been suggested in the literature with some successes but...Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher A. Pissarides

September 2000