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In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...
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This paper investigates the impact of trade barriers such as customs clearance, subjective trade obstacles (customs and trade regulations), and inventory of inputs on the internationalization of enterprises in Southeast Asia and Latin America, using the World Bank's enterprise surveys. Empirical...
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This paper examines the evolution of the variety of Mexico’s export goods using disaggregated trade data. Both the …) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA membership does not enhance the variety of Mexico's export goods. This finding … contrasts with NAFTA's positive association with the increase in export variety found in the literature. …
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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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There exists a growing body of literature which looks at export decisions made by firms. Most studies focus on … aims at filling this gap in the literature by analyzing the export behavior of a statistically representative sample of 192 … higher probability of exporting. Training activities for employees are important to export outside of MERCOSUR. …
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This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …
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As the success of East Asian countries has shown, labor-intensive industry is recognized to lead economic growth in the early stages of development, utilizing relatively low labor costs. This same growth process has already started in South and South East Asian LDCs since the mid-1990s. However,...
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This paper tries to explain how the Japanese postwar export promotion system worked and what kind of roles JETRO played … in this system. Two case studies of JETRO's successful export promotion activities were also introduced. The paper also … American Export Promotion Agencies, based upon JETRO's postwar experiences. …
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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...
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This paper empirically explores the connection between two recent phenomena in the European scenario: the dramatic upsurge of non-tariff trade measures and the remarkable rise in the role of European business lobbies. While these two facts have been widely recognized by the international trade...
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