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Trade openness and growth : a network-based approach
Duernecker, Georg; Meyer, Moritz; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2021
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the study of international trade that leads to a measure of country openness that is quite different from the various alternatives proposed by the received literature. In contrast to these, our measure does not use indicators of aggregate trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625802
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018
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Quantifying the extensive margin(s) of trade : the case of uneven European integration
Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific … effects of globalization and European integration. We find strong positive effects of globalization and also significant but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285497
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On the relationship between trade openness and government size
Farhad, Mohammad; Jetter, Michael - 2019
Does trade openness systematically imply bigger governments, as proposed by Rodrik (1998)? This paper presents a novel and more refined explanation for when and why international trade may enlarge the public sector. We propose that trade openness is associated with bigger governments if (i) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103413
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Going deep : the trade and welfare effects of TTIP
Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga - 2014
Since July 2013, the EU and the US have been negotiating a preferential trade agreement (PTA), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multi-country, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and international input-output linkages to quantify its potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469287
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A counterfactual economic analysis of Covid-19 using a threshold augmented multi-country model
Chudik, Alexander; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2020
This paper develops a threshold-augmented dynamic multi-country model (TG-VAR) to quantify the macroeconomic effects of Covid-19. We show that there exist threshold effects in the relationship between output growth and excess global volatility at individual country levels in a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293790
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WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes
Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 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). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well as semi-parametric methods, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522137
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Deep trade agreements and FDI in partial and general equilibrium : a structural estimation framework
Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
We quantify the relationships between deep trade liberalization and foreign direct investment (FDI). To this end, we focus on the effects of Deep Trade Agreements (DTAs), and we rely on a structural framework that simultaneously enables us to (i) estimate the direct impact of DTAs on FDI, (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013384905
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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?
Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528971
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The impact of liberalisation and globalisation on income inequality in developing and transitional economies
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2003
This paper reviews changes in global, between-country and within-country inequality over 1980-2000 against the background of the shifts that occurred in this area during the globalisation of 1870-1914. The paper finds that recent changes in global and between-country inequality are not marked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514131