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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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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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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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Exports under the Flicker of the Northern Lights

Kristjánsdóttir, Helga - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Picture a small open economy in the North Atlantic Ocean, highly dependent on trade with the EU and NAFTA. How important are these trading blocs to the country's exports? How important is the country's location and size, and how do these affect the export sectors? A unique version of the gravity...

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Emerging East-West collaborative networks: An appraisal

Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Although an extensive amount of literature reviews emerging patterns of east-west co-operation, it is not easy to grasp the state of the art. Too many of the books, articles and papers tend to mark the trees rather than to map the forest. The paper analyses recent trends from the point of view...

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Subsidies and Exports in Germany. First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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 Cost of EU Trade Protection in Textiles and Clothing

Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...

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The expansion of intra-Asian trade: an analysis of structural patterns and determinants

Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

-regions within Asia. Beyond a general trend towards manufactures, it reveals remarkable differences in specialisation profiles … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both … differences in factor endowments inside Asia but also differences in access conditions (trade policy). Growth in intra- Asian …

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Revealed comparative advantages in the services trade of the United States, the European Union and Japan : what do they tell us?

Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

The paper argues that measuring revealed comparative advantages (RCA) in international trade in services cannot be straightforwardly compared to RCA in trade in goods. The essential difference is that services are internationally exchanged not only by cross-border trade mainly subject to...

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Assessing EU Concessions for Service Trade Liberalization in the Doha Round. What Frequency Indices Suggest

Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

While the EU is a customs union in merchandise trade (goods), it has not yet reached this stage of integration in service trade. How far the EU is from a customs union in service trade is very difficult to assess because of the nonquantitative nature of trade restrictions in this sector. The...

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