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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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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493562
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Problems of Post-CMEA Trade and Payments
Rosati MEP, Dariusz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
The demise of the CMEA trading system in 1991 and the shift to convertible currency settlements and world market prices was expected to bring about a severe contraction of intra-group trade, coupled with large imbalances in trade between Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The observed...
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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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Disintegration and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The gravity model of trade is utilized to assess the impact of disintegration on trade. The analysis is based on three recent disintegration episodes involving the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The results point to a very strong home bias around the time of disintegration,...
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Regionalism in the Nineties: What Effect on Trade?
Soloaga, Isidro; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
regionalism boosted intra-bloc trade significantly. Regarding trade diversion, we found convincing evidence of it only for EU and …
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Endogeneity of Currency Areas and Trade Blocs: Evidence from the Inter-war Period
Ritschl, Albrecht; Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Empirical research on the gravity model of international trade in the wake of Rose (2000) affirms that currency union formation doubles or triples trade. Currency unions could, however, also be established precisely because trade among their members was already high. In OLS estimation, this...
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