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On the Heterogeneous Trade and Welfare Effects of GATT/WTO Membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2020
We build on the latest developments in the structural gravity literature to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the...
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Trade Tariff, Wage Gap and Public Spending
Giuranno, Michele - 2019
This paper studies the interplay between the wage gap and government spending in a small open economy facing a shock in trade policy. We consider a specific factor model with an export sector, which uses skilled labour, and an import-competing sector, which uses unskilled labour. We find the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861427
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The Trade Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021
China during 2020. We find that a country’s own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China …-19 deaths in the main trading partners of a country (excluding China) induces more imports from China, partially … are evaluated at their 2020 mean is, on average, a reduction of nearly 10% in imports from China. There is also …
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FDI and the Relevance of Spatial Linkages : Do Third Country Effects Matter for Dutch FDI?
Garretsen, Harry - 2013
The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) FDI. To do so, and based on recent FDI theories, we estimate a spatial lag model to assess the importance of spatial linkages for Dutch FDI to 18 host countries. As a determinant of FDI, space or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753723
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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement
Brouwer, J.; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2021
This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the ten countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a dataset of unbalanced...
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A Simple Method to Quantify the Ex-Ante Effects of "Deep" Trade Liberalization and "Hard" Trade Protection
Larch, Mario; Tan, Shawn W.; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021
We propose a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the “deep” impact of trade liberalization and the “hard” effects of protection with the empirical structural gravity model. Specifically, we argue that the difference between the estimates of border indicator...
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The Trade Effects of Anti-Dumping Duties : Firm-Level Evidence from China
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2018
This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm-level exports to firm-specific AD duties, we exploit differences across firms within products. This reduces endogeneity concerns which have plagued earlier research. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908716
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The US-China Phase One Trade Deal : An Economic Analysis of the Managed Trade Agreement
Funke, Michael; Wende, Adrian - 2021
In light of the recent tit-for-tat trade dispute between China and the US, interest in quantifying the effects of the … for China and the US, trade diversion effects are also analyzed. The model-based analysis finds noticeable positive … (negative) impacts of the agreement for the US (China) as well as negative spillover effects for countries not directly affected …
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity : Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice - 2019
industry. Using firm level data from China, we document that wholesalers play no such role for direct importers. However, other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857766
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Different Antidumping Legislations within the WTO : What Can We Learn from China's Varying Market Economy Status?
Sandkamp, Alexander - 2020
This paper examines how varying antidumping methodologies applied within the WTO differ in the extent to which they reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other targeted countries. This difference can be traced back in...
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