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Natural Disasters and the Effect of Trade on Income : A New Panel IV Approach
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2011
Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and … level to construct an instrument for multilateral openness that varies across countries and time. The instrument can be used …' performances as well as for the direct effect of disasters. We find that the elasticity of income with respect to openness is about …
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Global Gains from Trade Liberalization
Fan, Haichao - 2012
What has been the overall global welfare impact of the accession to the World Trade Organization of a large country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108084
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Icebergs Versus Tariffs : A Quantitative Perspective on the Gains from Trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2013
quantification based on countries' observed degrees of openness, tariff revenues, and on the gravity elasticities of tariffs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083872
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The Elasticity of Trade : Estimates and Evidence
Simonovska, Ina - 2011
Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129252
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International Trade in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Neary, J. Peter - 2016
between wages and profits, and for production and trade patterns in a two-country world …
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International Trade and Unemployment : A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2021
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315832
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A Rise By Any Other Name? Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source
Hanousek, Jan - 2008
Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773476
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the … the measurement error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774497
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China's Gains from WTO Accession : Imports versus Exports
Lai, Ting-Wei - 2016
evaluate how the increased openness caused by China's accession to the WTO effects the importing and exporting sectors. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000232
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Gravity Estimation of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade : An Alternative Procedure with Alternative Data
Flam, Harry - 2011
. By using data on the number of bilaterally traded products we improve on identification and allow estimation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128040