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Gotcha! A Profile of Smuggling in International Trade
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2021
the world's five largest importers for the period from 2002-2006, we find that the reporting gaps are highly correlated …
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Overcoming History through International Organizations – Historical Roots of EU Support and Euroscepticism
Gehring, Kai - 2019
There is little causal evidence about deep-rooted sources of support for shifting power from nation-states to international organizations. Focusing on the European Union, this paper develops the hypothesis that citizens appreciate the role of international organizations in constraining member...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862881
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Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment : The Italian Case
Daniele, Vittorio - 2011
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of crime on FDI inflows in 103 Italian provinces. The incidence of criminality is measured through the number of complaints for different kinds of crime. The analysis has been conducted using different estimation methods for panel data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756493
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Was Germany ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade 1885-1933
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2013
, while external integration worsened after World War I and again with the Great Depression, in part because of border changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753424
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Do Trade Agreements Stimulate International Trade Differently? Evidence from 296 Trade Agreements
Kohl, Tristan - 2013
In a seminal paper, Rose (2004) found that the assumed positive impact of the WTO on international trade was questionable. This finding has been scrutinized and modified in subsequent research, using different datasets, econometric methods and separating the WTO from other forms of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081056
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Market Potential and Global Growth over the Long Twentieth Century
Jacks, David S. - 2018
market potential exhibits an upward trend across all regions of the world from the early 1930s and that this trend … significantly deviates from the evolution of world GDP. Finally, using exogenous variation in trade-related distances to world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910940
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A Closer Look at Revealed Comparative Advantage : Gross-versus Value Added Trade Flows
Brakman, Steven - 2015
With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912691
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2016
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001168
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective : Part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
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