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Trade Flows and Trade Specialisation: The Case of China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - CESifo - 2015
Using annual data for the period 1992-2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners in Asia, North America and Europe, and whether increasing trade has led to industrial structural adjustment and changes in China’s trade patterns. The analysis is based on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185620
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Trade Flows and Trade Specialisation: The Case of China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
Using annual data for the period 1992-2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners in Asia, North America and Europe, and whether increasing trade has led to industrial structural adjustment and changes in China’s trade patterns. The analysis is based on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185756
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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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Exchange rate pass-through and product heterogeneity: does quality matter on the import side?
Bernini, Michele; Tomasi, Chiara - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2014
Using Italian firm-level data for the period 2000-2006, this paper investigates the role of the quality of imported inputs and exported output in determining the heterogeneous response of exporters' prices to real exchange rate fluctuations. The analysis confirms previous findings that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011031552
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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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Exporting under Financial Constraints: Margins, Switching Dynamics and Prices
Secchi, Angelo; Tamagni, Federico; Tomasi, Chiara - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012
-selection into export and potential endogeneity of the financial constraints proxy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561642
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2012
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of “dirty” goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568611
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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