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Using annual data for the period 1992-2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners … in Asia, North America and Europe, and whether increasing trade has led to industrial structural adjustment and changes … in China’s trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and …
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bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity … actions reduce the volume of trade; a doubling in the number of terrorist incidents is associated with a decrease in bilateral … trade by about 4 percent. …
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This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...
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estimate an augmented gravity trade model using maximum likelihood estimation. Besides controlling for standard variables … innovation effects steaming from both importing countries and China. We use a panel dataset representing annual bilateral trade …. We show that trade costs have a negative impact on exports of solar PV components but not WETC. Additionally, we find a …
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seem to play a vital role, openess to foreign trade is quite important for all areas of financial development. Hence …
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region. The expansionary effects in the US and the euro area responses are lower, as trade linkages are less intensive. The …
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This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an … traditional one with physical capital, such a differential induces a relocation effect which increases with the level of trade … into play. The most significant difference between this world and the traditional one is that, at high levels of trade …
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The paper analyzes the network structure of international trade. Adapting a network approach developed in the physical … sciences, we propose that international trade functions like a scale-free network. For each commodity group we calculate a … model to explore the effect of the network structure on the value of bilateral trade. The estimation suggests that, inter …
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Soft budget constraints (SBCs) are a persistent feature of transition economies and have been blamed for i.a. a lack of fiscal consolidation and sluggish growth. EU eastward enlargement has - among other things - been conditioned on tackling SBCs. This paper analyzes such outside conditionality...
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Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm … the simplest specifications possible, namely a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model with fixed export costs …
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