Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 491
Cover Image
The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019
in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. We subject this theoretical prediction to a … reality check drawing upon the World Banks Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 developing … countries to all destinations. We find that around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is along the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890632
Cover Image
Icebergs versus Tariffs: A Quantitative Perspective on the Gains from Trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - 2013
Recent quantitative trade models treat import tariffs as pure cost shifters so that their effects are similar to iceberg trade costs. We introduce revenue-generating import tariffs, which act as demand shifters, into the framework of Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare (2012), and generalize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292713
Cover Image
Estimating the Trade and Welfare Effects of Brexit: A Panel Data Structural Gravity Model
Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2017
different counterfactual post-Brexit scenarios, our main findings suggest that UKs (EUs) exports of goods to the EU (UK) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794167
Cover Image
Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade
Breinlich, Holger; Nocke, Volker; Schutz, Nicolas - 2016
In a two-country international trade model with oligopolistic competition, we study the conditions on market structure and trade costs under which a merger policy designed to benefit domestic consumers is too tough or too lenient from the viewpoint of the foreign country. Calibrating the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522409
Cover Image
China's Overinvestment and International Trade Conflict
Schnabl, Gunther - 2019
For a long time, China's impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based on the recent discussion on possible overcapacities and overinvestment in China, the paper investigates the sustainability of China's investment- and export-driven growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866404
Cover Image
Trade Protection Along Supply Chains
Bown, Chad P.; Conconi, Paola; Erbahar, Aksel; … - 2021
During the last decades, the United States has applied increasingly high trade protection against China. We combine detailed information on US antidumping (AD) duties — the most widely used trade barrier — with US input-output data to study the effects of trade protection along supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251244
Cover Image
Trade Policy Along the Global Value Chain : A Rationale for the Existence of Deep Trade Agreements
Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2022
production of sub-stages of the global value chain. In the open economy, the technologically backward country exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240317
Cover Image
New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and the Developing Economies
Rodrik, Dani - 2018
Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932057
Cover Image
Transportation Costs and the Great Divergence
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014
This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352350
Cover Image
The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480902