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Trade costs in the India-Mekong Subregion: Identifying Policy Priorities for Trade Facilitation

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2011

This paper explores the trade facilitation performance of India and Mekong countries using a new measure of bilateral comprehensive trade costs, complemented by a review of specific trade policy and trade facilitation-related indicators. A model of comprehensive trade costs is then developed and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393163

Trade Costs in Asia and the Pacific: Improved and Sectoral Estimates

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2011

There is ample evidence that successful implementation of bilateral or regional trade and economic integration initiatives would have a very significant impact on intraregional trade in Asia and the Pacific. However, little is known about the level of intraregional trade costs in the region and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649691

Trade Facilitation in Asia and the Pacific: Which Policies and Measures affect Trade Costs the Most?

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2011

This paper presents findings from an initial analysis of new non-tariff trade cost estimates and their determinants, based on a bilateral database of comprehensive trade cost maintained by ESCAP. Results of the non-tariff policy-related trade costs modeling exercise strongly suggest that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274501

impact of trade costs on trade: empirical evidence from Asian countries

De, Prabir - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …

this chapter looks at trade facilitation in a trade (transaction) cost framework, and evaluates the impact of transport costs and underdeveloped infrastructure on bilateral trade flows of 10 Asian developing countries.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614993

Intraregional Trade Costs in Asia-A Primer

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2010

While much has been said about the need to promote intraregional trade and the importance of reducing associated trade costs, quantitative estimates of such costs have been lacking. A new comprehensive measure of international trade costs is applied in this paper to calculate ad valorem trade...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852544

Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this paper, we show that this trade-promoting effect of language...

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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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Fixed Export Costs and Export Behavior

Castro, Luis; Li, Ben; Maskus, Keith E.; Xie, Yiqing - CESifo - 2014

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export … behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them … to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms facing higher fixed export costs are less likely to export …

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Trade Costs and Job Flows: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data

Groizard, Jose L.; Ranjan, Priya; Rodriguez-Lopez, Antonio - CESifo - 2014

Changes in the costs of trading inputs or final goods affect establishment-level job flows. Using a longitudinal database containing the universe of manufacturing establishments in California from 1992 to 2004, we find that a decline in input or final-good trade costs is associated with job...

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Cultural Integration and Export Variety Overlap Across Countries

Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - CESifo - 2014

This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...

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