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Small trade flows, compliance costs and trade preferences: The case of EU imports from African LDCs

Nilsson, Lars; Dotter, Caroline - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

using monthly data on EU imports from African LDCs at the lowest level of (publicly) available aggregation thereby coming … utilising preferences, by country and product category and test their empirical relevance for explaining the African LDCs …

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Deep trade policy options for Armenia: The importance of trade facilitation, services and standards liberalization

Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find...

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From trade preferences to trade facilitation: Taking stock of the issues

Persson, Maria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. After reviewing the relevant literatures and...

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Export Subsidies in a Heterogeneous Firms Framework

Helmers, Christian; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We evaluate the impact of firm-specific export subsidies on exports in Colombia. Using a two-stage Heckman selection procedure, we obtain firm-specific predicted subsidy amounts that can be explained by the characteristics that determine the firms’ eligibility for the government support and...

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Multilateralism and regionalism from an American perspective: Parallels and contrasts with the Langhammer vision

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

. This could still leave a bright future for the WTO as a house of plurilaterals, i.e., agreements on specific issues such as …

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The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage

Khalilian, Setareh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for … heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only … unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to structure WTO provisions and WTO case rulings so that their application …

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The impact of a customs union with the EU on Turkey's welfare, employment and income distribution: An AGE analysis

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

The economic implications and the income distribution effects of the CU between Turkey and the EU have been studied by applying a general equilibrium model to the Turkish economy. The numerical results show that the CU is not trade diverting. Most importantly, urban (rural) groups are better...

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Determinants of exports in the G7-countries

Lapp, Susanne; Scheide, Joachim; Solveen, Ralph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

Real effective exchange rates and economic activity in trading partner countries have a considerable impact on real exports of the G7-countries. Using an errorcorrection framework we find that the short-run and the long-run effects differ substantially between the countries. The relative...

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The impact of a Customs Union with the EU on internal migration in Turkey under the two alternative Harris-Todaro and wage curve settings

Santis, Roberto A. De - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The impact on internal migration of the recent Customs Union (CU) agreement between Turkey and the European Union (EU) has been studied with an intra-industry trade Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model with intersectoral capital mobility, under two alternative specifications for the labour...

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Die Preisbildung im westdeutschen Außenhandel: Eine empirische Analyse

Fischer, Malte - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996

Which factors determine the prices of West German expörts and imports? To answer this question, two single equation error correction modeis are applied. Export prices turn out to be mainly determined by prices for concurrent goods proiduced abroad, whereas unit labor costs and the nominal...

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