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The Post-Crisis Sequencing of Economic Integration in Asia: Trade as a Complement to a Monetary Future

Plummer, Michael G.; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - In: Economie Internationale (2006) 107, pp. 59-85

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of “trade first, money later”, recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...

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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...

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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 - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 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 …

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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2013

This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It finds that firm-heterogeneity matters in RTA use. Acquiring knowledge about RTAs, building technological capabilities, and membership of...

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Armington Product Variety Growth in Small versus Large Countries

Egger, Peter; Gassebner, Martin; Lassmann, Andrea - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 145 (2009) IV, pp. 411-419

Recent work in international economics provides insights into the measurement of product variety change - i.e., the change at the extensive margin of trade - and its consequences for a country's welfare. In such work, the measurement of product variety change is typically taken as given. There...

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Estimating Regional Trade Agreement Effects on FDI in an Interdependent World

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2007

Recent research on trade and multinationals highlights a novel issue with multinational firms. In particular, their integration strategies are complex and the degree of vertical integration varies in a multilateral world with many possible locations of activity. Multinationals may choose some...

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Estimating Models of Complex FDI: Are There Third-Country Effects?

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School - 2005

The recent general equilibrium theory of trade and multinationals emphasizes the importance of third countries and the complex integration strtegies of multinationals. Little has been done to test this theory empirically. This paper attempts to rectify this situation by considering not only...

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Panel Data Gravity Models of International Trade

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - CESifo - 2014

One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply of goods, services, and factors across national or subnational borders (see Leamer and Levinsohn, 1995). The respective empirical models specified and estimated are often...

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Cultural Integration and Export Variety Overlap Across Countries

Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - CESifo - 2014

This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...

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Foreign Ownership, Technological Capabilities and Exports: Evidence from 205 Clothing Firms in Sri Lanka

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise … of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is regarded as a major outcome of the … reforms. This paper seeks to examine a range of factors underlying firm-level export and technological performance …

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