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Factor Endowments, Technology, Capital Mobility and the Sources of Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing

Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2017

Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...

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Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains : Theory, Evidence, and Open Questions

Ruta, Michele - 2017

Preferential trade agreements today are more numerous and deeper than they were a quarter century ago. Do deep agreements promote countries' integration into global value chains? What are the economic mechanisms? How do countries choose their trade agreement partners? Would the undoing of deep...

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A Commitment Theory of Subsidy Agreements

Brou, Daniel - 2012

the policy substitution problem. Finally, we employ the theory to analyze the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM …

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Cheap but flighty : how global imbalances create financial fragility

Ahnert, Toni; Perotti, Enrico - 2015

We analyze how a wealth shift to emerging countries may lead to instability in developed countries. Investors exposed to expropriation risk are willing to pay a safety premium to invest in countries with good property rights. Domestic intermediaries compete for such cheap funding by carving out...

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Export Discoveries, Diversification and Barriers to Entry

Klinger, Bailey - 2017

The literature on the relationship between economic diversification and development has grown rapidly in recent years, partly due to the surprising finding that diversification rises with gross domestic product per capita up to a certain point. Export diversification along the extensive margin...

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Horizontal Depth : A New Database on the Content of Preferential Trade Agreements

Hofmann, Claudia - 2017

1958 and 2015, which reflects the entire set of preferential trade agreements in force and notified to the World Trade … World Trade Organization mandate and in four leading areas outside the current World Trade Organization mandate: competition …

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The Volatility of International Trade Flows in the 21st Century : Whose Fault is it Anyway?

Bennett, Federico Roberto - 2017

After investment, exports and imports are the most volatile components of aggregate demand within countries. Moreover, the volatility of growth and the volatility of trade flows tend to move together; they declined from the 1990s until 2009, followed by an increase since 2009. This paper...

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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System

Ederington, Josh - 2017

With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …

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Deep Trade Agreements and Vertical FDI : The Devil is in the Details

Osnago, Alberto - 2017

agreements and of vertical foreign direct investment to test the theory. Consistent with the model, the analysis finds evidence … implication of the model is specific to the so-called ?property rights? theory of the multinational firm, the findings provide …

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Depreciations Without Exports? Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports

Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2017

This paper analyzes how the exchange rate elasticity of exports has changed over time and across countries and sectors, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first...

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