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CO2 embedded in trade : trends and fossil fuel drivers
Weber, Sylvain; Gerlagh, Reyer; Mathys, Nicole A.; … - 2019
The amount of CO2 embedded in trade has substantially increased over the last decades. We study the trends and some drivers of the carbon content of trade over the period 1995-2009. Our main findings are the following. First, the mix of traded goods tends to have higher emission intensity than...
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Forecasting exports across Europe : what are the superior survey indicators?
Lehmann, Robert - 2019 - This version: September 6, 2019
branches to forecasting export growth across a multitude of European countries. Our pseudo out-of-sample analyses reveal that … indicators are superior: the Export Climate, the Production Expectations of domestic manufacturing firms, the Industrial … forecasters in order to choose the best-performing indicators and thus increasing the accuracy of export forecasts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104016
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Energy consumption in the GCC countries : evidence on persistence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Monge, … - 2019
This paper examines the statistical properties of energy consumption in the GCC countries applying fractional integration methods to annual data from 1980 to 2014. The results indicate that both the raw and the logged series exhibit a (statistically significant) linear time trend in the case of...
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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade flows : evidence from a dynamic panel model
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...
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The trade impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021
Using a gravity-like approach, we study how Covid-19 deaths and lockdown policies affected countries' imports from China during 2020. We find that a country's own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China, suggesting that the negative demand effects prevailed...
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German firms in international trade : evidence from recent microdata
Fauth, Matthias; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2023
information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306801
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Internationally coordinated emission permit policies : an option for withdrawers from the Kyoto protocol?
Bednar-Friedl, Birgit; Farmer, Karl - 2009
This paper investigates the welfare costs of unilateral versus internationally coordinated emission permit policies in a two-country overlapping generations model with producer carbon emissions. We show that, for a net foreign debtor country, the domestic welfare costs of a unilateral domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882562
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Trade intensity and output synchronisation : on the endogeneity properties of EMU
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; De Santis, Roberta; Girardi, … - 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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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union
Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...
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Oil trade and climate policy : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, October 2014
Curuk, Malik; Sen, Suphi - 2015
It has been argued that a depletable resource owner might optimally increase near-term supply in response to environmental policies promoting the development of alternative resources, which might render climate policy ineffective or even counterproductive. This paper empirically confirms this...
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