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The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub-regions within Asia. Beyond a general trend towards manufactures, it reveals remarkable differences in specialisation profiles between lagging South Asian countries still concentrating on...
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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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We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...
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the EU. It turns out that in 1997 EU consumers paid roughly ECU 25 billion more for T&C products, due to quotas, tariffs …
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encourage the other (developing) countries including China and India …
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This paper analyzes the GATT negotiations during the Uruguay Round and shows that France was induced to accept a more free trade oriented package due to her integration into the European community. The importance of the European economic and diplomatic relationships led France to accept a GATT...
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their total emissions, and net carbon exports of China amount to 24% of China's total emissions. We also analyze policies … under a global per capita emissions based contraction and convergence regime with emission trading: When China joins the … regime, the developing countries will benefit, while the industrialized countries will be almost unaffected. When China does …
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in Asia has been the rise of China, and not preferential trade agreements. In the last two decades, Chinas has managed to … establish itself as the indispensable trading partner in the region. In 2011, China accepted a trade deficit with its … of co-operation are formidable. Other Asian countries like to co-operate with China, but demonstrate an even rising …
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In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...
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This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market between one domestic and one foreign firm as a pricing game under incomplete information about production costs. The cost distributions are asymmetric because the foreign firm...
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