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What Explains Germany’s Rebounding Export Market Share?

Danninger, Stephan; Joutz, Fred - CESifo - 2007

Germany’s export market share increased since 2000, while most industrial countries experienced declines. This study …-shoring). An export model is estimated covering the period 1993–2005. The dominant factor explaining the increase in market share … are trade relationships with fast growing countries. Regionalized production in the export sector also played a part …

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Wake up and Smell the Ginseng: International Trade and the Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries

Puga, Diego; Trefler, Daniel - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007

Increasingly, a small number of lowwage countries such as China, India and Mexico are involved in incremental innovation. That is, they are responsible for resolving productionline bugs and suggesting product improvements. We provide evidence of this new phenomenon and develop a model in which...

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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework

Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2012

Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...

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Effects of the Endogenous Scope of Preferentialism on International Goods Trade

Egger, Peter; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2013

Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader...

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Economic Integation Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - CESifo - 2013

Using a novel common econometric specification, we examine the measurement of three important effects in international trade that historically have been addressed largely separately: the (partial) effects on trade of economic integration agreements, national borders, and bilateral distance....

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Intermediaries in International Trade: Direct Versus Indirect Modes of Export

Bernard, Andrew B.; Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

volumes. Export intermediaries such as wholesalers serve different markets and export different products than manufacturing … environment and product- specific factors play important roles in explaining the existence of export intermediaries. These … export intermediaries to overcome country and product fixed costs means that they can more easily respond along the extensive …

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Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - CESifo - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...

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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

We draw attention to the role of economic geography in explaining important cross-sectional facts which are difficult to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of local demand in generating sufficient expenditure on...

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Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

International trade models typically assume that producers in one country trade directly with final consumers in another. In reality, of course, trade can involve long chains of potentially independent actors who move goods through wholesale and retail distribution networks. These networks...

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Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform

Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2007

comparative-advantage industries and at exporters. These findings are robust to instrumenting trade barriers and export status … with product demand at Brazil's export destinations and real exchange rate components. Worker effects are important …

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