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Antkiewicz, Agata (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

We discuss recent regional trade and economic partnership agreements involving the large population rapidly growing economies (Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa, ASEAN, Mexico) who (with the exception of Mexico) are also outside of the OECD. Perhaps 50 out of 300 that exist worldwide...

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The carbon footprint of global trade imbalances

Mahlkow, Hendrik; Wanner, Joschka - 2023

world of balanced international trade. Specifically, we build a Ricardian quantitative trade model including sectoral input … benefits in terms of lower global emissions. Globally, the simultaneous removal of all trade imbalances would lower world …

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Migration and trade

Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2011

Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is...

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Kyoto and carbon leakage : an empirical analysis of the carbon content of bilateral trade

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2011

Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...

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Economic integration agreements, border effects, and distance elasticities in the gravity equation

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2013

yields economically plausible and statistically significant estimates of the declining effect of “national borders” on world …

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Foreign language learning : an econometric analysis

Ginsburgh, Victor; Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid Toubal - 2014

The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …

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The sustainability of empire in global perspective : the role of international trade patterns

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012

European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...

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The language effect in international trade : a meta-analysis

Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - 2011

Gravity models of international trade have been frequently applied to estimate the impact of common (official or spoken) language on bilateral trade. This study provides a meta-analysis based on 701 language effects collected from 81 academic articles. On average, a common (official or spoken)...

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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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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014

America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …

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