Walter Steingress - Latest

• Market Size and Entry in International Trade: Product Versus Firm Fixed Costs

  Staff Working Paper 2018-43 Walter Steingress

  This paper develops a theoretical framework to infer the nature of fixed costs from the relationship between entry patterns in international markets and destination market size. If fixed costs are at the firm level, firms take advantage of an intrafirm spillover by expanding firm-level product range (scope).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Firm dynamics, International topics, Trade integration JEL Code(s): F, F1, F12, F14, F2, F23

• The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States

  Staff Working Paper 2018-19 Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri, Walter Steingress

  In this paper we study the impact of immigration to the United States on the vote for the Republican Party by analyzing county-level data on election outcomes between 1990 and 2010. Our main contribution is to separate the effect of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants, by exploiting the different geography and timing of the inflows of these two groups of immigrants.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): International topics, Labour markets JEL Code(s): F, F2, F22, J, J6, J61