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Belts, roads, and regions : the dynamics of Chinese and Japanese infrastructure connectivity initiatives and Europe's responses
Pascha, Werner - 2020
the People's Republic of China and Japan's "Partnership for Quality Infrastructure" (PQI). After introducing key issues … movers, with the establishment of the European Investment Bank for instance, but its mechanisms have so far not become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012205804
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Lessons for Asia from Europe's history with banking integration
Elliott, Douglas J. - 2014
mechanisms among their national financial supervisors. It was also a mistake to forbid the European Central Bank from operating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010242041
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How do financial crises redistribute risk?
Mitchener, Kris; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023
financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …
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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union
Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371905
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Do trade agreements stimulate international trade differently? : evidence from 296 trade agreements
Kohl, Tristan; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry - 2013 - This version, April 2013
In a seminal paper, Rose (2004) found that the assumed positive impact of the WTO on international trade was questionable. This finding has been scrutinized and modified in subsequent research, using different datasets, econometric methods and separating the WTO from other forms of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743775
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Goods and factor market integration : a quantitative assessment of the EU enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Opromolla, Luca David; Parro, Fernando; … - 2017
The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704526
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Political economy of East Asian regional integration and cooperation
Katada, Saori N. - 2009
In the last decade, East Asia has engaged in constructing numerous mechanisms to enhance regional cooperation in the areas of trade and finance. However, the region's economic architecture exhibits certain idiosyncrasies such as an eclectic institutional structure and a limited level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003927373
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Imperatives of regional economic integration in Asia in the context of developmental asymmetries : some policy suggestions
Upendra Das, Ram - 2009
Regional economic integration agreements are considered to be important policy mechanisms to address regional developmental asymmetries. The Asian reality is characterized by developmental asymmetries across countries on the one hand and a lack of comprehensive pan-Asian formal regional economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003927386
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How free trade can help convert the 'Arab Spring' into permanent peace and democracy
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez, Inmaculada; Wijkman, … - 2012
Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571054
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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015
Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309578