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The Distance Effect and the Regionalization of the Trade of Low-Income Countries

Carrere, Céline; De, Jaime Melo; Wilson, John - HAL - 2011

several methods on cross-section and panel estimates of the gravity equation, we estimate that low-income countries exhibit a …

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Transportation Infrastructure and Development in Ghana

Jedwab, Rémi; Moradi, Alexandre - HAL - 2011

We study the impact of transportation infrastructure on agriculture and development in colonial Ghana. Two railway lines were built between 1901 and 1923 to connect the coast to mining areas and the large hinterland city of Kumasi. This unintendedly opened vast expanses of tropical forest to...

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Determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam: A comparative study

Pham, Thi-Hong-Hanh - HAL - 2012

determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam by employing an augmented gravity model and using a panel dataset containing information …

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Source and host country volatility and FDI: A gravity analysis of European investment to Middle East and North Africa

Nicet-Chenaf, Dalila; Rougier, Eric - HAL - 2014

Macroeconomic determinants of FDI are seldom analyzed from the perspective of source countries, priority being generally given to host country characteristics. In a gravity set-up, we analyze FDI flows from European Union to MENA economies. We find that European investment to our MENA host...

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Do Environmental Policies Hurt Trade Performance?

Combes, Jean-Louis; Motel, Pascale Combes; KINDA, … - HAL - 2014

This paper contributes to the controversial literature on the relationship between environmental policies and international trade. It provides new evidence about the effect of a gap in environmental policies between trading partners on trade flow on a sample of developed and developing countries...

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Les Groupes régionaux latino-américains : building ou stumbling blocks ? Un modèle de gravité en données de panel

Trotignon, Jérôme - HAL - 2007

Cet article vise à évaluer, à partir d'un modèle de gravité en données de panel à 3 variables indicatrices régionales …

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Are the New Trading Blocs Building or Stumbling Blocks ? A Gravity Model Using Panel Data

Trotignon, Jérôme - HAL - 2009

multilateralization of trade, and so constitute building or stumbling blocks. In a gravity model using panel data, we estimate a set of …

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Politiques énergétiques et accès aux services urbains en réseau à Istanbul : une ambition métropolitaine au détriment de l'intérêt général

Arik, Elvan - HAL - 2011

À partir de la thématique énergétique à Istanbul, ce mémoire apporte des éléments de réponse à la double interrogation suivante : comment les structures de gouvernance locale se sont-elles adaptées aux injonctions du développement urbain durable ? ; dans une métropole déjà...

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Do banking crises enhance efficiency ? A case study of 1994 Turkish and 1997 Indonesian crises

Reynaud, Julien; Rokhim, Rofikoh - HAL - 2005

Drawing together the concepts of inefficiency and banking crisis is directly inspired by business cycles theory where a crisis is the turning point from which the market/economy is recovering. If inefficiency plays a role in the occurrence of banking crisis, the post-crisis period should be the...

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Gender wage discrimination in the Turkish labor market

Cudeville, Elisabeth; Gurbuzer, Leman Yonca - HAL - 2007

While the topic of gender equality turns out to be an important element in the preparation of Turkey to join the … toward filling this gap. We propose an estimate of the wage discrimination in Turkey relying on different decompositions of … the gender waga differential. The data set used is the 2003 Turkish Household Budget Survey. In Turkey, the observed …

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