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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 Investment in the Global Economy
Anderson, James E. - 2017
actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947623
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Strategic Currency Choice in International Trade
Sokolova, Maria - 2015
How exporters choose currency for their exports? Using highly disaggregated data on the population of Russian Federation exporting firms between 2005 and 2009 this paper studies the strategic determinants of currency invoicing decisions. Strategic morives embrace two occurrences in currency...
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Somatic Distance, Cultural Affinities, Trust and Trade
Melitz, Jacques - 2018
Somatic distance, or differences in physical appearance, proves to be extremely important in the gravity model of bilateral trade in conformity with results in other areas of economics and outside of it in the social sciences. This is also true quite independently of survey evidence about...
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Trade Intensity and Output Synchronisation : On the Endogeneity Properties of EMU
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
Using annual bilateral data over the period 1988-2011 for a panel of 24 industrialised and emerging economies, we analyse in a time-varying framework the determinants of output synchronisation in EMU (European Monetary Union) distinguishing between core and peripheral member states. The results...
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The Hidden Cost of Globalization : Import Competition and Mental Distress
Colantone, Italo; Crinò, Rosario; Ogliari, Laura - 2021
We study the effect of import competition on workers’ mental distress. To this purpose, we source information on the mental health of British workers from the British Household Panel Survey, and combine it with measures of import competition in more than 100 industries over 2001-2007. We find...
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Trade Linkages and the Globalisation of Inflation in Asia and the Pacific
Auer, Raphael - 2014
intensity. Next, using a novel data set based on the World Input-Output Database (WIOD), we examine the importance of the supply …
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The Greek Crisis : Causes and Consequences
Garcia Pascual, Antonio I. - 2011
Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster than GDP. Fiscal consolidation alone cannot close the solvency gap. A substantial reduction in the stock of debt is needed. Even post-debt restructuring, there is no guarantee...
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The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Shadow Economy in Egypt
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2017
This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … economic globalization is negative and statistically significant for the first three years following the shock. This finding is … obtained by controlling for several intermediary channels in globalization-shadow economy nexus such as education, government …
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Trade, Trust and Institutions
Yu, Shu - 2011
To investigate the relation between trust and formal institutions, we analyze bilateral trade patterns in a sample of 16 European countries between 1996-2009. Trust in trading partners has a significant positive effect on bilateral trade. However, our results suggest that trust and formal...
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