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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union
Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790167
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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect : Evidence from the European Union
Martinez-San Roman, Valeriano - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051267
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Trade Flows and Trade Specialisation : The Case of China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
Using annual data for the period 1992-2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners in Asia, North America and Europe, and whether increasing trade has led to industrial structural adjustment and changes in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026682
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Effects of the Endogenous Scope of Preferentialism on International Goods Trade
Egger, Peter; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2013
Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877855
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Economic Integation Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - CESifo - 2013
agreements, national borders, and bilateral distance. First, recent studies focusing on precise and unbiased estimates of effects … confirm recent evidence providing a solution to the “distance-elasticity puzzle,” but show that these estimates of the … declining effect of distance on international trade are biased upward by not accounting for endogenous EIA formations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948834
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Border Effects Without Borders : What Divides Japan's Internal Trade?
Wrona, Jens - 2018
This paper identifies a “border” effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan is 23.1 to 51.3 percent lower than trade within both country parts, is established despite the absence of an obvious east-west division due to historical borders, cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915201
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Cultural Integration and Export Variety Overlap Across Countries
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - CESifo - 2014
This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775096
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Effects of the Endogenous Scope of Preferentialism on International Goods Trade
Egger, Peter H. - 2013
Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082621
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Heterogeneous Economic Integration Agreement Effects
Baier, Scott L. - 2015
distance and adjacency, capturing variable natural trade costs; however, the heterogeneity in EIAs' partial effects on the … extensive margin is explained empirically by distance and adjacency, as well as several other cultural and institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014988
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Tear Down this Wall : On the Persistence of Borders in Trade
Nitsch, Volker - 2009
Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154269