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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO
Baccini, Leonardo - 2017
What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
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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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Reducing Tariffs According to WTO Accession Rules : The Case of Vietnam
Fosse, Henrik Barslund - 2011
When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have to fall according to the accession agreement. This paper evaluates this 2007-2014 trade liberalization by building an applied general equilibrium model and calibrating it to the...
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WTO Membership and the Shift to Consumption Taxes
Buettner, Thiess - 2016
Using a panel of 97 mostly developing and transitional countries for the period 1990-2011, this paper explores fiscal implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Employing robust difference-in-difference specifications as well as semi-parametric methods, we find that...
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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India : A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016
given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995197
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A Convex Hull Approach to Counterfactual Analysis of Trade Openness and Growth
Funke, Michael - 2009
In this paper, we apply a convex hull approach to counterfactual analysis of trade openness and growth. The experiments we choose evaluate the importance of trade openness for growth across African countries. Specifically, we ask the question “what would happen if African countries were more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158311
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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases
Bell, Clive - 2006
This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...
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Infrastructure and Growth : Empirical Evidence
Égert, Balázs - 2009
Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure investment can have a positive effect on growth that goes beyond the effect of the capital stock because of economies of scale, the existence of network externalities and...
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The Sustainability of Chinese Growth and the Aggregate Factor Substitution Elasticity
Whalley, John - 2012
than below one. We use time series data on labor's share in GDP to estimate a substitution elasticity for China, finding … role of factor substitution in future Chinese growth. We argue that high growth in China can be supported in such a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110413
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Where is the Value Added? Trade Liberalization and Production Networks
Aichele, Rahel - 2019
-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages. We calibrate the model and perform a counterfactual analysis of China's WTO …-12% of the decrease in the world DVA ratio as observed between 2000-2007. For China, the counterfactual experiment robustly … replicates the increase in the DVA ratio, driven by the export-processing zones. Furthermore, our results imply that China's WTO …
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