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Explaining MERCOSUR sectoral exports to the EU: The role of economic and geographical distance

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. - EconWPA - 2003

economic distance. We argue that products which are highly sensitive to economic distance (proxied with absolute differences in … per capita income) and barely sensitive to geographical distance are the best candidates for future trade between the … different sensitivity to distance and highlight the importance of using disaggregated data when analysing international trade …

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An advanced guide to trade policy analysis : the structural gravity model

Yotov, Yoto V.; Piermartini, Roberta; Monteiro, … - World Trade Organization; Vereinte Nationen - 2016

"This Advanced Guide has been developed to contribute to the engancement of developing countries' capacity to analyse and implement trade policy. It is aimed at government experts engaged in trade negotiations, as well as graduate students and researchers involved in trade-related study or...

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The Impact of Rules of Origin On Trade Flows

Patricia, AUGIER; Michael, GAZIOREK; Charles, LAITONG - EconWPA - 2004

Within any preferential trade agreement (PTA) origin rules exist in order to prevent third countries from taking advantage of the PTA concessions. The rules thus are there to preserve the existing external protection of countries within the PTA. However, depending on their formulation, they can...

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The Impact of International Economic Sanctions on Trade An empirical Analysis

Caruso, Raul - EconWPA - 2003

International economic sanctions appear to be a common and recurring feature of political interactions between states. In particular, the United States is the country which has most frequently applied negative economic sanctions after World War II. In a parallel way, several measures, imposed by...

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The Choice of Time Interval in Seasonal Adjustment: A Heuristic Approach

bruno, Giancarlo; Otranto, Edoardo - EconWPA - 2004

criterion based on a distance measure between filters, evaluating its performance with Monte Carlo experiments. …

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Sanitary and phytosanitary standards as bridge to cross:

Munasib, Abdul; Roy, Devesh - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

This research assesses the effects of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards in international trade by introducing a new concept, bridge to cross (BTC), with product standards. The BTC in this paper is the regulatory gap between the exporting and importing countries with regard to any...

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Trade facilitation agreement : easing the flow of goods across borders

World Trade Organization - 2015

The Trade Facilitation Agreement is the first multilateral trade agreement to be concluded since the WTO was established 20 years ago. Once it enters into force, the Agreement is expected to reduce total trade costs by more than 14 per cent for low-income countries and more than 13 per cent for...

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China's growth and the agricultural exports of Southern Africa:

Villoria, Nelson; Hertel, Thomas; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"The implications of China's growth for the development prospects of Sub-Saharan Africa have been the subject of recent attention. Interest in this topic is motivated by the increasing presence of China in the region and the growing bilateral trade links between China and Africa. Against this...

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TRADE POTENTIAL IN AN ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION: A RECENT APPROACH

Martínez-Galán, Enrique; Fontoura, Maria-Paula; … - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims to evaluate the trade potential of manufactured products between the members of the EU25 in the threshold of its Eastern enlargement. We estimate, for 2002, a cross-section gravity model, whose coefficients will be used to project the “natural” trade relations between them....

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An Empirical Test of the Dutch Disease Hypothesis using a Gravity Model of Trade

Stijns, Jean-Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

Although the core model of the Dutch Disease makes unambiguous predictions regarding the negative effect of a resource boom on a country’s manufacturing exports, the empirical literature that has followed has not clearly identified this effect. I attribute this to the failure of the existing...

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