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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020 - Version of August, 2020
firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501399
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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021
Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316892
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Gravity-Model Estimation with Time-Interval Data : Revisiting the Impact of Free Trade Agreements
Egger, Peter - 2020
We challenge the common practice of estimating gravity equations with time-interval data in order to capture dynamic-adjustment effects to trade-policy changes. Instead, we point to a series of advantages of using consecutive-year data recognizing dynamic-adjustment effects. Our analysis reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822506
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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004
World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274453
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Decoupling Global Value Chains
Eppinger, Peter; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021
Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227605
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Arming in the Global Economy : The Importance of Trade with Enemies and Friends
Garfinkel, Michelle R. - 2019
We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one’s incentive to arm given the opponent’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892081
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Multinational Production and Global Shock Propagation During the Great Recession
Li, Haishi - 2023
interactions between MP and trade. According to the model with MP, supply-side productivity shocks contributed to the collapse of … to shocks that affected aggregate productivity and were specific to multinationals in a few key headquarters countries …. The MP links significantly amplified the impact of these shocks on the rest of the world, which had a much greater impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358332
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Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and Internationalization
Wang, Hao - 2020
In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826003
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International Trade and Stable Resolutions of Resource Disputes
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022
We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states’ military capacities, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243081
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Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth
Gaggl, Paul; Gorry, Aspen; vom Lehn, Christian - 2023
stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348090