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The determinants of trade costs : a random coefficients approach

Egger, Peter; Průša, Jan - 2014

This paper assesses whether the sensitivity of bilateral trade volumes to various trade cost factors is constant or varies across countries. It utilizes a random coeffcients model and analyses a cross-sectional sample of bilateral trade data for 96 countries in 2005. We expect the elasticity of...

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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is noncompulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...

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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020

We build on the latest developments in the structural gravity literature to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the...

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …

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On the effects of sanctions on trade and welfare : new evidence based on structural gravity and a new database

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yalçin, … - 2019

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...

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Macroeconomic potentials of transatlantic free trade : a high resolution perspective for Europe and the world

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; … - 2014

since the Uruguay Round (1986 to 1994). It would create a free trade zone covering 45% of world GDP. However, critics … gains for Germany (+3.5%), Europe (3.9%), and the world (+1.6%), but that it could also harm third countries. …

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Threshold and interaction effects in the openness-productivity growth relationship : the role of institutions and natural barriers

Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; Kneller, Richard; … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

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WTO membership and the extensive margin of world trade : new evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2009

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What determines BITs?

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Egger, Peter - 2011

model of world trade and foreign direct investment with three factors, two products, and explicit natural as well as policy …

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