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Navigating Out of the Crisis: A Trade-led Recovery-A Practical Guide for Policymakers in Asia and the Pacific
Economic, United Nations (contributor);  … - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
The current economic and financial crisis is an unprecedented challenge for policymakers of the Asia-Pacific region. While the region's policymakers have gained considerable experience in responding to national or regional financial crises, they have less expertise in addressing a crisis that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008863002
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406147
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738681
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877646
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877855
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948834
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548148
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094453
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Panel Data Gravity Models of International Trade
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - CESifo - 2014
One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply of goods, services, and factors across national or subnational borders (see Leamer and Levinsohn, 1995). The respective empirical models specified and estimated are often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739343
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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union
Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790167