Giovanni Facchini

The customs union issue: why do we observe so few of them? (2008)

From individual attitudes to immigration policy : theory and evidence / G. Facchini, A.M. Mayda. - In: Economic policy. - ISSN 1468-0327. - 56(2008 Oct). - p. 651-713.

Facchini, Giovanni, Peri, Silva

The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can...

Fiscal decentralization, regional inequality and bailout : lessons from Brazil's debt crisis (2008)

FACCHINI, GIOVANNI, G. Facchini, C. Testa

Fiscal decentralization, regional inequality and bailout : lessons from Brazil's debt crisis / G. Facchini, C. Testa. - In: Quarterly review of economics and finance. - ISSN 1062-9769. - 48:2(2008)....

Dual track liberalization : with and without losers (2007)

FACCHINI, GIOVANNI, C. Jiahua, G. Facchini

Dual track liberalization : with and without losers / C. Jiahua, G. Facchini. - In: Journal of public economics. - ISSN 0047-2727. - 91:11-12(2007 Dec). - p. 2291-2306.

Spurious Deadweight Gains (2007)

Giovanni Facchini, Peter J. Hammond, Hiroyuki Nakata

Marshallian consumer surplus (MCS) is generally an inaccurate measure of welfare change because it neglects income effects. Suppose these effects overturn the usual demand response to a price change....

Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America’s trade policy and imports from China and India (2007)

Facchini, Giovanni, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri, Willmann, Gerald

This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...

Hub-and-Spoke Free Trade Areas (2006)

Deltas, George, Desmet, Klaus [desmet], Facchini, Giovanni

This paper analyzes how the sequential formation of free trade areas affects the volume of trade between member countries. In a three--country, three--good model, if two countries have a free trade...

Protecton for sale with imperfect rent capturing (2006)

Asylum seekers in Europe : the warm glow of a hot potato (2006)

Protecton for sale with imperfect rent capturing / G. Facchini, J. Van Biesebroeck, G. Willmann. - In: Canadian journal of economics. - ISSN 0008-4085. - 39:3(2006 Aug). - p. 845-873.

The political economy of international factor mobility (2005)

Asylum seekers in Europe : the warm glow of a hot potato / G. Facchini, O. Lorz and G. Willmann. - In: Journal of population economics. - ISSN 0933-1433. - 19:2(2006 Jun). - p. 411-430.

The political economy of international factor mobility (2005)

The political economy of international factor mobility / G. Facchini, G. Willmann. - In: Journal of international economics. - ISSN 0022-1996. - 67:1(2005 Sep). - p. 201-219.

Trade liberalization and industrial concentration : evidence from Brazil (2005)

The political economy of international factor mobility / G. Facchini, G. Willmann. - In: Journal of international economics. - ISSN 0022-1996. - 67:1(2005 Sep). - p. 201-219.

Cultural Differences, Insecure Property Rights and the Mode of Entry Decision (2005)

Trade liberalization and industrial concentration : evidence from Brazil / G. Facchini, P. Cavalcanti Ferreira. - In: Quarterly review of economics and finance. - ISSN 1062-9769. - 45:2-3(2005 May)....

Facchini, Giovanni

Dual Track Liberalization: With and Without Losers (2004)

Trade liberalization and industrial concentration: Evidence from Brazil (2004)

The success of the Chinese economic reforms has been linked by many observers to the implementation of a dual track liberalization mechanism. This approach, relying upon the continued enforcement of...

Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti Gomes, Facchini, Giovanni

Rio de Janeiro

Dual Track Liberalization: With and Without Losers (2004)

The political economy of international trade and factor mobility : a survey (2004)

Dual track liberalization, relying upon the continued enforcement of existing contracts and the simultaneous creation of a free market sector, represents a powerful mechanism in economic reform. If...

FACCHINI, GIOVANNI, G. Facchini

The political economy of international trade and factor mobility : a survey / G. Facchini. - In: Journal of economic surveys. - ISSN 0950-0804. - 18:1(2004 Feb). - p. 1-31.

Welfare leakage and immigration policy (2004)

Welfare Leakage and Immigration Policy (2004)

Welfare leakage and immigration policy / G. Facchini, A. Razin, G. Willmann. - In: CESIfo economic studies. - ISSN 1610-241X. - 50:4(2004). - p. 627-645.

Facchini, Giovanni, Razin, Assaf, Willmann, Gerald

This paper analyzes the interaction between the welfare state and immigration policy. We establish a negative relationship between the number of dependents and the extent of the welfare state due to...

Groeth at the EU periphery : the next enlargement (2003)

Pareto gains from trade (2001)

Groeth at the EU periphery : the next enlargement / G. Facchini, M.L. Segnana. - In: Quarterly review of economics and finance. - ISSN 1062-9769. - 43:5(2003). - p. 827-862.

Spurious deadweight gains (2001)

Pareto gains from trade / G. Facchini, G. Willmann. - In: Economia politica. - ISSN 1120-2890. - 18:2(2001 Aug). - p. 207-216.

The gains from duty free zones (1999)

Spurious deadweight gains / G. Facchini, P.J. Hammond, H. Nakata. - In: Economics letters. - ISSN 0165-1765. - 72:1(2001 Jul). - p. 33-37.

Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing

The gains from duty free zones / G. Facchini, G. Willmann. - In: Journal of international economics. - ISSN 0022-1996. - 49:2(1999 Dec). - p. 403-412.

Giovanni Facchini, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Gerald Willmann

Structurally estimating the Grossman and Helpman (1994) model using coverage ratios that include non-tariff barriers leads to biased parameter estimates. We develop a "protection for sale"...

Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries

Individual Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider...

Facchini, Giovanni, Mayda, Anna Maria

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider...

Protection for sale with imperfect rent capturing

Giovanni Facchini, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Gerald Willmann

explain tariffs as the outcome of a lobbying process. In most empirical implementations of this framework protection is instead measured using non-tariff barriers. Since tariffs allow the government...

Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants across Countries

Substitutability and protectionism : Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider...

Facchini, Giovanni, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri, Willmann, Gerald

The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...

Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India

Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, Peri Silva, Gerald Willmann

This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...

Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Prachi Mishra

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple...

Trade Liberalization and Industrial Concentration:Evidence from Brazil

Giovanni Facchini; Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira

This paper applies an endogenous lobby formation model to explain the extent of trade protection granted to Brazilian manufacturing industries during the 1988-1994 trade liberalization episode. Using...

Hub-and-Spoke Free Trade Areas

Deltas, George, Desmet, Klaus, Facchini, Giovanni

This paper analyzes how the sequential formation of free trade areas affects the volume of trade between member countries. In a three--country, three--good model, if two countries have a free trade...

Dual Track Liberalization: With and Without Losers

Dual Track Liberalization: With and Without Losers

Dual track liberalization, relying upon the continued enforcement of existing contracts and the simultaneous creation of a free market sector, represents a powerful mechanism in economic reform. If...

Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries

The success of the Chinese economic reforms has been linked by many observers to the implementation of a dual track liberalization mechanism. This approach, relying upon the continued enforcement of...

Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Facchini

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants within and across countries and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider two...

The political economy of international trade and factor mobility

Giovanni Facchini

Free trade in goods and factors is efficient. When we move away from economic theory and consider the policies actually followed by governments, we observe distortions being implemented both on goods...

Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations

Conconi, Paola, Facchini, Giovanni, Zanardi, Maurizio

Fast Track Authority (FTA) is the institutional procedure in the Unites States whereby Congress grants to the President the power to negotiate international trade agreements. Under FTA, Congress can...

Dual track reforms: With and without losers

Public Pensions and Immigration: A Public Policy Approach. By TIM KRIEGER

GIOVANNI FACCHINI

Dual Track Liberalization: With and without losers

Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries

The success of the Chinese economic reforms has been linked by many observers to the implementation of a dual track liberalization mechanism. This approach, relying upon the continued enforcement of...

Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider...

Giovanni Facchini, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Gerald Willmann

The Grossman and Helpman (1994) model explains tariffs as the outcome of a lobbying game between special interests and the government. Most empirical implementations of this framework use instead...

Asylum Seekers in Europe: The Warm Glow of a Hot Potato

Giovanni Facchini, Oliver Lorz, Gerald Willmann

The Common European Asylum System calls for increased coordination of the EU countries’ policies towards asylum seekers and refugees. In this paper, we provide a formal analysis of the effects of...

Dual Track Reforms: With and Without Losers

The political economy of international factor mobility

The dual track approach to market liberalization has been widely recognized as the key to the success of the Chinese economic reform. In this paper we study the effectiveness of this strategy in...

Facchini, Giovanni, Willmann, Gerald

The gains from duty free zones

Facchini, Giovanni, Willmann, Gerald

Trade liberalization and industrial concentration: Evidence from Brazil

Cavalcanti Ferreira, Pedro, Facchini, Giovanni

Trade liberalization and industrial concentration: Evidence from Brazil

Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti Gomes, Facchini, Giovanni

A Theory of Bicameralism

Growth at the EU periphery: the next enlargement

We model the role of a parliament’s structure in shaping the accountability of elected representatives. In a setting in which lawmakers interact with a lobby through a bargaining process and with...

Facchini, Giovanni, Segnana, Maria Luigia

Spurious deadweight gains

Facchini, Giovanni, Hammond, Peter J., Nakata, Hiroyuki

Protection for Sale with Imperfect Rent Capturing

Facchini, Giovanni, Van Biesebroeck, Johannes, Willmann, Gerald

We extend the protection for sale framework by modelling non tariff barriers. Explicitly introducing partial rent capturing leads to a testable specification that bridges the gap between the...

Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India

Facchini, Giovanni, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Silva, Peri, Willmann, Gerald

This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...

Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants? Evidence Across Countries

Dual Track Reforms: With and Without Losers

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider...

Cultural Differences, Insecure Property Rights and the Mode of Entry Decision

The dual track approach to market liberalization has been widely recognized as the key to the success of the Chinese economic reform. In this paper we study the effectiveness of this strategy in...

From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: Theory and evidence

We develop a theory of a multinational corporation's optimal mode of entry in a new market. The foreign firm can choose between a licensing agreement, a wholly owned subsidiary or shared control...

Facchini, Giovanni, Mayda, Anna Maria

In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of...

Why Join a Common Market? The Political Economy of International Factor Mobility in a Multi-country Setting

Facchini, Giovanni

This paper develops a theory of the endogenous formation of a common market in a three-country, n factor political economy model. Ex ante policies in each of the prospective members are the result of...

Dual Track Liberalization: With and Without Losers

From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: Theory and evidence

Dual track liberalization, relying upon the continued enforcement of existing contracts and the simultaneous creation of a free market sector, represents a powerful mechanism in economic reform. If...

Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants? Evidence Across Countries

Do Interest Groups Affect US Immigration Policy?

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider...

Facchini, Giovanni, Mayda, Anna Maria, Mishra, Prachi

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an...

Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India

Giovanni Facchini, Marcelo Olarreaga, Peri Silva, Gerald Willmann

This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is...

Fiscal decentralization, regional inequality and bail-outs: Lessons from Brazil's debt crisis

Facchini, Giovanni, Testa, Cecilia

This paper develops a simple two-period model of public good provision within a federation. A national public good is provided to both states by the federal government, while a local public good is...

From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence

Facchini, Giovanni, Mayda, Anna Maria

In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of...

Who is Against a Common Market?

Facchini, Giovanni, Testa, Cecilia

This paper develops a theory of the endogenous formation of a common market in a three-country, two-factor political economy model. In the status quo, Home and Foreign implement non-discriminatory...

Asylum seekers in Europe: the warm glow of a hot potato

Giovanni Facchini, Oliver Lorz, Gerald Willmann

Political economy, Asylum policy, Migration, J61, H77, F22,

Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries

Spurious Deadweight Gains

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider...

Giovanni Facchini, Peter J. Hammond, Hiroyuki Nakata

July 2000 Marshallian consumer surplus (MCS) is generally an inaccurate measure of welfare change because it neglects income effects. Suppose these effects overturn the usual demand response to a...

Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations

Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, Maurizio Zanardi

Fast Track Authority (FTA) is the institutional procedure in the Unites States whereby Congress grants to the President the power to negotiate international trade agreements. Under FTA, Congress can...

Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?

Prachi Mishra, Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Facchini

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an...

The Customs Union issue: Why do we observe so few of them?

Giovanni Facchini, Peri Silva, Gerald Willmann

The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can...

The Customs Union Issue: Why do we Observe so few of them?

Giovanni Facchini, Peri A. Silva, Gerald Willmann

The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can...

Who is Against a Common Market?

The Costums Unions Issue: Why do we observe so few of them?

This paper develops a theory of the endogenous formation of a common market in a three-country, two-factor political economy model. In the status quo, Home and Foreign implement non-discriminatory...

Giovanni Facchini, Peri Silva, Gerald Willmann

The number of preferential trade agreements has greatly increased over the past two decades, yet most existing bilateral arrangements take the form of free trade areas, and less than ten percent can...

Do Interest Groups Affects US Immigration Policy?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Prachi Mishra

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an...

From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes. Theory and Evidence

Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations

In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of...

Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, Maurizio Zanardi

Fast Track Authority (FTA) is the institutional procedure in the Unites States whereby Congress grants to the President the power to negotiate international trade agreements. Under FTA, Congress can...

Do Interest Groups affect US Immigration Policy?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Prachi Mishra

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an...

Cultural differences, insecure property rights and the mode of entry decision

Symposium on organization, heterogeneity and trade

Multinational corporations, Mode of entry decision, Joint ventures, F23, L24,

Giovanni Facchini, Thierry Verdier

Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants? Evidence across Countries

Reforming Legislatures: Is one House better than two?

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes toward immigrants-within and across countries-and their interaction with labor market drivers of preferences. We consider two...

Who Is Against a Common Market?

During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework casting some lights on the drawbacks of bicameral state...