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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979886
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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
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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania
Arouri, Mohamed; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, … - 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/10009581725
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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
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769782
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Meta-analysis of the business cycle correlation between the euro area and the CEECs
Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); Korhonen, Iikka (contributor) - 2006
countries (CEECs), a topic that has gained attention as the newest EU members approach monetary union. Our meta-analysis of 35 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301362
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Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010184
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418382
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375699
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Verification of the new trade theory in EU's trade with CEECs : evidence from panel data 1990 - 1997
Fidrmuc, Jarko - 1999
The new trade theory explains several features of the current development of EU's trade with CEECs better than the … peripheral EU countries. However, this induced increased specialization in EU countries, which contrasts with the development in …Um gewisse Merkmale der gegenwärtigen Entwicklung des Osthandels der EU zu erklären, ist die neue Außenhandelstheorie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712333