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Comparative Advantages, Transaction Costs and Factor Content in Agricultural Trade: Empirical Evidence from the CEE

Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, d'Artis; Pokrivcak, Jan - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

The present study examines factor content in the CEE transition country agricultural trade. However, deviating from the traditional approach, we do not test the HOV prediction. Instead, we examine the theoretical predictions that relate the factor content of international trade to cross-country...

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Gender Inequality and Trade

Busse, Matthias; Spielmann, Christian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

The paper empirically explores the international linkages between gender inequality and trade flows of a sample of 92 developed and developing countries. The focus is on comparative advantage in labour-intensive manufactured goods. The results indicate that gender wage inequality is positively...

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Export Structure, FDI and Child Labour

Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

The paper addresses the linkage between certain aspects of the increasing economic integration of world markets and the level of child labour. We empirically examine, first, the often-cited conventional wisdom that multinational enterprises invest in countries where the extent of child labour is...

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Trade and Investment Effects of Forced Labour: An Empirical Assessment

Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses several forms and the prevalence of forced labour … investment is negatively linked with forced labour. This result even holds for relatively poor developing countries …

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Environmental regulation and international trade patterns for agro-industrial under a South-North Perspective

Feix, Rodrigo Daniel; Miranda, Silvia Helena Galvao de; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

This paper aims at examining the relation between the international trade and the environment, particularly focused on sensitive agribusiness sectors. It consists on an empirical test to the conflicting positions supported by economists, some following the traditional approach (trade-off or...

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Analysing major determinants of European FDI into the Mediterranean countries

Weissleder, Lucie M.; Heckelei, Thomas - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is known as a very relevant driver of economic growth and has found increased attention …

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Trade, Human Capital, and Income Risk

Deng, Liuchun; Krishna, Pravin; Senses, Mine Zeynep; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In this paper, we empirically assess the causal links between trade and individual income risk and study the role that … 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in labor income risk across workers in different entry cohorts and …-industry changes in imports and exports are causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and they …

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Execution Risk

Engle, Robert - 2006

risk and return in optimal execution should reflect the same risk preferences as in ordinary investment. The paper develops …Transaction costs in trading involve both risk and return. The return is associated with the cost of immediate … execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between …

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