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The Causal Impact of Common Native Language on International Trade: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies the causal effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland is a multilingual country that hosts four official language groups of which three are major (French, German, and Italian). These groups of native language speakers are geographically...
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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian ‘noodle bowl’ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134331
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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian ‘noodle bowl’ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134359
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Energy Demand and Trade in General Equilibrium: An Eaton-Kortum-type Structural Model and Counterfactual Analysis
Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper sheds light on the role of the impact of taxes on energy production versus tariffs on imported goods for trade, energy demand, and welfare. For this, we develop a structural Eaton-Kortum type general equilibrium model of international trade which includes an energy sector. We estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644033
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International Outsourcing and the Skill-Specific Wage Bill in Eastern Europe
Egger, Peter; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2001
The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of skill-specific real wage bills in manufacturing of three Central and East European countries (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic). Both intermediate goods exports and imports of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649647
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The Trade Effects of Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements
Egger, Peter; Larch, Mario; Staub, Kevin E.; … - CESifo - 2010
Recent work by Anderson and van Wincoop (2003) establishes an empirical modelling strategy which takes full account of the structural, non-(log-)linear impact of trade barriers on trade in new trade theory models. Structural new trade theory models have never been used to evaluate and quantify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799745
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901622
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901625
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Effects of the Endogenous Scope of Preferentialism on International Goods Trade
Egger, Peter; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2013
Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877855
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SME internationalization through global value chains and free trade agreements: Malaysian evidence
Arudchelvan, Menaka; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2015
Growing internationalization of firms in Asia through participation in global value chains (GVCs) and free trade agreements (FTAs) has focused attention on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Yet there is scant literature on the characteristics of SMEs involved in GVCs and FTAs. Malaysia...
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