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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions: Paving the Way

Cadot, Olivier; Fernandes, Ana; Gourdon, Julien; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions towards targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...

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Who Profits from Trade Facilitation Initiatives?

Hoekman, Bernard; Shepherd, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation—measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within...

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What Determines the Economic Geography of Europe?

Haaland, Jan I.; Kind, Hans Jarle; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper focuses on what the driving forces behind industry localisation in Europe are. Based on traditional as well as new trade theory and new economic geography our cross-sectoral empirical analysis seeks to explain the pattern of relative and absolute concentration of manufacturing...

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The Log of Gravity

Santos Silva, J.M.C; Tenreyro, Silvana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Although economists have long been aware of Jensen's inequality, many econometric applications have neglected an important implication of it: the standard practice of interpreting the parameters of log-linearized models estimated by ordinary least squares as elasticities can be highly misleading...

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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...

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Is Regionalism Simply a Diversion? Evidence from the Evolution of the EC and EFTA

Bayoumi, Tamim; Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper considers the impact on trade of preferential arrangements in Europe since the 1950s. Using a first difference version of the gravity model, we find that the EEC and EFTA altered the pattern of international trade. We also find evidence of trade diversion in several cases, notably...

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Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade

Francois, Joseph; Manchin, Miriam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where...

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Domino Effects in Western European Trade, 1960-92

Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper uses a standard gravity equation to test the hypothesis of domino effects in Western Europe. The question being addressed is whether increased integration within the EC has impacted negatively on non-members and thereby prompted their application for EC membership. The paper finds...

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The Impact of EU Trade Agreements with Central and East European Countries: The Case of Spain

Martín, Carmela - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

between the EU and the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs), as envisaged in the Association … Agreements aimed at the eventual enlargement of the EU to include these countries. For this purpose it describes the trade … patterns between the signatory countries - Spain, the rest of the EU and the CEECs - since the fall of the communist bloc and …

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The Potential for Trade Between the Countries of EFTA and Central and Eastern Europe

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Recent events, historical evidence and geographical proximity suggest that the six EFTAns and twelve Central and East European countries (CEECs) are natural trading partners. This paper evaluates this suggestion by estimating the potential for EFTA-CEEC trade using the gravity model of Wang and...

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