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This policy paper, prepared as part of the Background Study for the European Competitiveness Report 2009, analyses the external trade in goods and services between the EU and the BRICs. The paper starts with the analysis of the global position of the EU and the BRICs in world trade (using the...
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After the Visegrad countries’ accession to the EU in 2004, one of the most remarkable developments was the sudden upturn in their mutual trade. In 2007 the value of aggregate intra-Visegrad trade was two and a half times higher than in 2003. The rate of growth in these countries’ trade with...
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After the EU accession of the Visegrad countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in 2004 one of the most remarkable developments was a sudden upturn in mutual trade of this region’s countries. In 2007 the value of aggregate intra-Visegrad trade was two and a half times...
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This paper investigates empirically the relationship between trade and FDI in services. Using bilateral data on US foreign affiliates' sales and trade as well as data on barriers to FDI, the relationship is investigated using different panel techniques, including fixed effects and...
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Working with a panel dataset of OECD countries over the decade 1994-2004, we examine linkages between cross-border trade and FDI in the services sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity model to both services trade and commercial presence...
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This report counter-poses the patterns of trade specialization and trade diversification of two groups of economies the new member states of the European Union, NMS, and the follower countries of the Soviet Union, the NIS (Newly Independent States). It is shown that the NIS export structures are...
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This report analyses the link between the industrial allocation of FDI and economic development, using a newly constructed data set on industrial FDI stocks for six individual manufacturing industries (food, textiles/wood, petroleum/chemicals/rubber/plastics, metals/mechanical products,...
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China. The BRICs show many common features, such as big land size, large population, fast economic growth etc., but …-led, supported by exports; and China's economic development is driven by manufacturing exports and investment. Finally, we explore …
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Graph of the month Foreign trade of the automotive industry in the NMS-7 Sources of economic growth in CEE countries before and after the crisis domestic effects and the importance of spillovers from Germany (by Roman Römisch) German firms drive innovation in Europe and around the globe (by...
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EU is among the main investors in each of the BRICs and the dominant investor in Brazil and Russia. In China and India … number of projects confirms this finding, the role of the EU in China is much greater than suggested by FDI data. China … emerges as the main BRICs target for EU projects, but in terms of FDI inflows China occupies rank three after Russia and …
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