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The Euro Changeover and Price Adjustments in Italy
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011
By estimating a staggered price model over the period 1980q1-2010q2, this paper documents that, after the euro …
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Politicized Trade : What Drives Withdrawal of Trade Preferences?
Gassebner, Martin - 2018
While it is well understood that industrialized countries use aid to grant political favors, little research covers alternative channels such as trade policy towards developing countries. We analyze eligibility investigations and revoking of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929478
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Transatlantic Free Trade : The View Point of Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2015
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States of America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have strong economic effects on Germany. In this paper, we...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023177
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How Free Trade Can Help Convert the 'Arab Spring' into Permanent Peace and Democracy
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2021
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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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316371
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Understanding the Latest Wave and Future Shape of Regional Trade and Cooperation Agreements in Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2021
Asia accounts for more than 30% of world GDP and contributes half of the global growth in recent years. Despite high growth rates, Asia is still facing considerable socio-economic challenges. If Asia is to reemerge as a major power in the global economy and in order for the region to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317319
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Trade, Conflicts, and Political Integration : The Regional Interplays
Vicard, Vincent - 2021
This paper investigates the determinants of the different forms taken by regional integration in different parts of the world. This raises the issue of the relationship between economic and political integration. The theoretical model shows that, in an insecure world, the interplays between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317345
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Friends without Benefits? New EMU Members and the ‘Euro Effect’ on Trade
Mika, Alina - 2017
no evidence of a euro effect on trade flows among early euro adopters up to the year 2002. Second, this finding is robust … to extending the sample period to incorporate data up to 2013, covering five additional euro accessions. Third, while … there is no robust evidence of a euro effect, there is evidence that intra-EU trade flows have expanded faster than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962673
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Recent Estimates of Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices in the Euro Area
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2015
This paper provides an update on the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) estimates for 12 Euro area (EA) countries. First …-through elasticities, we find very weak evidence of a decline around the inception of the euro in 1999. However, our results reveal that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022505