Oliver Lorz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5935287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Lorz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorz |
| SIGNATURE | LORZ O |
| AFFILIATIONS | RWTH Aachen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9102-4002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tariff overhang and aid
In this paper, we consider aid payments as a possible explanation for tariff overhangs. We set up a theoretical model in which rich countries use development aid to pay for tariff concessions by poorer countries. The more aid they receive as compensation, the more poor countries reduce the applied tariff below the bound tariff rate. Anticipating this mechanism, countries can negotiate a bound tariff rate that induces the joint optimal applied tar…
Investment in trade facilitating infrastructure
Aging, Factor Returns, and Immigration Policy
Immigration has various economic and non‐economic effects on the destination country's inhabitants. In this paper, we focus on the impact of immigration on factor returns and analyze how aging affects immigration policy, employing a dynamic political‐economy model of representative democracy. Aging, that is, a decline in the growth rate of the native population, has an expansionary effect on immigration in this framework. This immigration effect …
Citizen-candidate mobility and endogenous local policy
Asylum seekers in Europe
On the endogenous allocation of decision powers in federal structures
Unemployment, Social Transfers, and International Capital Mobility
This paper analyzes the consequences of international capital mobility for national social-transfer policy and unemployment in a model with workers of different skill and income levels. Social transfers may cause unemployment of low-skilled workers if the transfer level exceeds their potential incomes on the labor market. Because of these employment effects, social transfers may influence the international allocation of capital. The equilibrium t…
Unemployment, Social Transfers, and International Capital Mobility
This paper analyzes the consequences of international capital mobility for national social-transfer policy and unemployment in a model with workers of different skill and income levels. Social transfers may cause unemployment of low-skilled workers if the transfer level exceeds their potential incomes on the labor market. Because of these employment effects, social transfers may influence the international allocation of capital. The equilibrium t…
On the endogenous allocation of decision powers in federal structures
Asylum seekers in Europe
Citizen-candidate mobility and endogenous local policy
Aging, Factor Returns, and Immigration Policy
Immigration has various economic and non‐economic effects on the destination country's inhabitants. In this paper, we focus on the impact of immigration on factor returns and analyze how aging affects immigration policy, employing a dynamic political‐economy model of representative democracy. Aging, that is, a decline in the growth rate of the native population, has an expansionary effect on immigration in this framework. This immigration effect …
Investment in trade facilitating infrastructure
Tariff overhang and aid
In this paper, we consider aid payments as a possible explanation for tariff overhangs. We set up a theoretical model in which rich countries use development aid to pay for tariff concessions by poorer countries. The more aid they receive as compensation, the more poor countries reduce the applied tariff below the bound tariff rate. Anticipating this mechanism, countries can negotiate a bound tariff rate that induces the joint optimal applied tar…
Economics (7 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (6 works) · Market economy (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economic Policies and Impacts (3 works) · International economics (3 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (3 works) · Business (2 works)