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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010

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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010

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/10003984793

Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania

Arouri, Mohamed; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, … - 2012

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Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010

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/10010269931

The effects of the CEECs' accession on sectoral trade : a value added perspective

Kaplan, Lennart C.; Kohl, Tristan; Martínez-Zarzoso, … - 2016

investigates how the accession of 10 Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) to the European Union (EU) affected trade in …-2009, we find that EU accession mainly fostered Eastern entrants' integration in other CEECs' value chains. Smaller integration …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414190

Fitting the gravity model when zero trade flows are frequent : a comparison of estimation techniques using Africa's trade data

Kareem, Fatima Olanike; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2016

investigate if EU fish standards are protectionist following reoccurring rejection of African fish products at the EU border … variables. In addition, we find EU standards are indeed non-protectionist in spite of the high level of African fish exports … rejected since 2008 at the EU border. Thus, a deeper trade agreement between these trading partners involving a significant …

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Social union, convergence and migration

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003

need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507973

Institutions and creative destruction in CEECs : determinants of inefficient use of assets

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Siddiquiy, Martin - 2015

We analyze the relationship between institutional quality and firm efficiency. Using rich data on firms in the European Union between 2005 and 2012, we show that high institutional quality lowers the share of persistently inefficiently used assets. The adverse effect of low institutional quality...

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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781677

The euro exchange rate and Germany's trade surplus

Hohberger, Stefan; Ratto, Marco; Vogel, Lukas - 2019

We estimate a three-region (DE-REA-RoW) structural macroeconomic model, and we provide a counterfactual on how nominal exchange rate flexibility would have affected the German trade balance (TB) by simulating the shocks of the estimated model under a counterfactual flexible exchange rate regime....

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