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information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A …
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The ‘new’ economic geography focuses on the footloose-labour and the vertically-linked industries models. Both are complex, since they feature demand-linked and cost-linked agglomeration forces. The paper presents a simpler model, where agglomeration stems from demand-linked forces arising...
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The impact of protection on economic growth is one of the traditional issues in economic history, which has enjoyed a revival in recent times, with the publication of a number of comparative quantitative papers. They all share a common weakness: they measure protection with the ratio of custom...
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of reducing import tariffs on intermediate inputs and final goods on the wage … reducing input tariffs reduces the wage skill premium within firms that import their intermediate inputs. However, we do not …
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Timeliness has gained growing importance in international trade. This paper provides empirical evidence on the significant cost of time in trade by exploiting the quasi-experimental nature of the European Union (EU) enlargement in 2004. It applies a difference-in-difference-in-differences...
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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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We evaluate the impact of the export promotion program delivered by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service on various … dimensions of export performance. Over the 1999-2006 time period we study, Canadian firms successfully diversified their exports …, increasing the number of export destinations or number of products exported, are smaller and more sensitive to the identification …
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living. Working in the export predicts gains and in the import-competing sector losses, a finding that is re-inforced by …
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misrepresent import prices. This institutional reform has effectively shut down one channel of import duty evasion. Dishonest … positive relationship between the tariff rate and misrepresentation of import prices prior to the accession. This relationship … statistically significant relationship between underreporting of import quantities and the tariff rate. Further, we find that the …
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-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favouring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets …
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