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CEP discussion paper
Evading the ban: smuggling, pollution, and the welfare effects of China?s waste import restrictions

While import restrictions are increasingly deployed to achieve non-trade objectives such as environmental protection, they often create distortions and leakage through illicit trade. We examine this trade-off in the cont...Read more...

Hanwei Huang and Yuyuan Yu

15 May 2026

CEP discussion paper
Rethinking revealed comparative advantage with micro and macro data

The Balassa's index of revealed comparative advantage does not necessarily reveal Ricardian comparative advantage. We propose an alternative sufficient statistics approach based on a quantitative standard trade model inc...Read more...

Hanwei Huang and Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

28 November 2023

CEP discussion paper
The optimal timing of UI benefits: theory and evidence from Sweden

This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incenti...Read more...

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

8 July 2015

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Bank Location and Financial Liberalization Reforms: Evidence from Microgeographic Data

We examine the effects of bank deregulation on the spatial dynamics of retail-bank branching, exploiting, much like a quasi-natural experiment, the context of intense liberalization reforms in Belgium in the late ninetie...Read more...

Marieke Huysentruyt, Eva Lefevere and Carlo Menon

October 2010

Book
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
An Empiricist's Companion

The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that explo...Read more...

Joshua D. Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

4 January 2009

CEP discussion paper
Exploring the Detailed Location Patterns of UK Manufacturing Industries Using Microgeographic Data

We use a point-pattern methodology to explore the detailed location patterns of UK manufacturing industries. In particular, we consider the location of entrants and exiters vs. continuing establishments, domestic- vs. fo...Read more...

Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman

October 2006

CEP discussion paper
The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in the European Union

Abstract This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It has three main aims. (i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea of the rich spatial dat...Read more...

Pierre-Philippe Combes and Henry G. Overman

October 2003

CEP discussion paper
Testing for Localisation Using Micro-Geographic Data

To study the detailed location patterns of industries, and particularly the tendency for industries to cluster relative to overall manufacturing, we develop distance-based tests of localisation. In contrast to previous s...Read more...

Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman

August 2002