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ascertain that today's trade issues in Northeast Asia go beyond the traditional mechanisms of tariffs, and include "behind … transaction costs along with trade infrastructure facilities have significant influence on regional trade flows in Northeast Asia …. On average, 10 percent saving in transaction costs increases imports by about 5 percent in Northeast Asia. This paper …
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As revealed by the trade intensity indices, India and the People's Republic of China have significant bilateral trade … losses in imports of both India and China due to different preferential trading arrangements and free-trade arrangements … China's because of its high tariffs but in the long run, India's gains are higher than China's once its tariff levels are …
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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 economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and …
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Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...
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This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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This article deals with econometric developments for the estimation of gravity model, which allow to get convergent parameter estimates even when a correlation exists between the explanatory variables and the specific unobservable characteristics of each individual. We implement panel data...
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Southeast Asia. In view of slowdown in growth and even recession in advanced economies as a result of the adverse impact of the … toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of “Make in India”, India needs to be … service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from …
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intermediate inputs for economies in the Asia-Pacific region and examine the impact on domestic producer prices of changes in costs … price dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region …
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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...
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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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