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What Determines BITs?
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - 2011
model of world trade and foreign direct investment with three factors, two products, and explicit natural as well as policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122385
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Migration and Trade
Egger, Peter - 2011
Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124393
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Foreign Language Learning : An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048885
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An Economic Theory of Foreign Interventions and Regime Change
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2011
I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124181
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Why do OECD-countries trade more?
Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, Gert-Jan M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
Ineffective institutions increase transaction costs and reduce trade. This paper shows that differences in the effectiveness of institutions offer an explanation for the tendency of OECD countries to trade disproportionately with each other, and with non-OECD countries.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334343
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Estimation of the gravity equation in the presence of zero flows
Linders, Gert-Jan M.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2006
Tobit estimation, truncated regression, probit regression and substitutions for zero flows have been suggested. We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349184
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Trade Flows and Trade Specialisation : The Case of China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026682
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Distance, Globalization, and International Trade
Borchert, Ingo - 2017
For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization affects manufacturing trade over the period 1986-2006 and show that, on average, the effect of distance has fallen whereas the effects of proximity and regional trade agreements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963770
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Trade and Investment in the Global Economy
Anderson, James E. - 2017
actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947623
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Trade and Currency Weapons
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - 2018
The debate on trade wars and currency wars has re-emerged since the Great recession of 2009. We study the two forms of non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and to the real exchange rate, based on product level data...
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