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Trade Blocs and Trade Wars during the Interwar Period

Jacks, David S. - 2019

What precisely were the causes and consequences of the trade wars in the 1930s? Were there perhaps deeper forces at work in reorienting global trade prior to the outbreak of World War II? And what lessons may this particular historical episode provide for the present day? To answer these...

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Trade Integration and Risk Sharing

Kraay, Aart - 2002

What are the effects of increased trade in goods and services on the trade balance? We study the effects of reducing transport costs in a Ricardian model with complete asset markets. Trade integration has three effects on the structure of the economy: a reduction in the home bias in consumption,...

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Patterns of Intra- and Inter-State Trade

Wolf, Holger C. - 1997

Recent studies suggest that intranational trade is "excessive' compared to international trade. An intuitive explanation for this home bias is provided by national trade barriers. A dataset of trade between US states, however, reveals that home bias extends to subnational units. The data suggest...

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Trade and Search : Social Capital, Sogo Shosha, and Spillovers

Rauch, James E. - 1996

A network/search view of international trade in differentiated products is proposed. It is shown that this view can explain the importance of ethnic and extended family ties in trade, the success of diversified trading intermediaries such as Japan's sogo shosha, and the ubiquity of government...

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Networks versus Markets in International Trade

Rauch, James E. - 1996

I propose a network/search view of international trade in differentiated products. I present evidence that supports the view that proximity and common language/colonial ties are more important for differentiated products than for products traded on organized exchanges in matching international...

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The regionalization of the world economy

Frankel, Jeffrey A. (ed.) - 1998

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China's growing economic activity in Africa

Besada, Hany - 2008

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …

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What is driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?

McMillan, Margaret S. - 2014

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …

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The African Growth Miracle

Young, Alwyn - 2012

Measures of real consumption based upon the ownership of durable goods, the quality of housing, the health and mortality of children, the education of youth and the allocation of female time in the household indicate that sub-Saharan living standards have, for the past two decades, been growing...

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Trade Creation and Trade Diversion Under NAFTA

Krueger, Anne O. - 1999

Aggregate and more micro data on trade between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are used to attempt to assess the early effects of Mexican entry into NAFTA. Although the fraction of Mexican trade with the U.S. and Canada has risen sharply, a number of factors have contributed to this result. Mexican...

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