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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024
Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … Madagascar and elsewhere. By comparing Madagascar with its peers, the paper aims to identify policies and strategies that can … foster economic and institutional diversification and to suggest pathways for Madagascar to promote the welfare of its people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048370
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Was Germany ever united? : evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933
Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2008
When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the geography of trade costs across Central Europe. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771795
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Offshoring along the production chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808676
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937283
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Modeling international trade flows between CEEC and OECD countries
Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688896
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Firm heterogeneity and the labour market effects of trade liberalisation
Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Kreickemeier, Udo (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497791
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Trade, conflicts, and political integration : the regional interplays
Vicard, Vincent (contributor) - 2006
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Food prices and the multiplier effect of export policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...
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Optimal tariffs on exhaustible resources : the case of a quantity setting cartel
Fujiwara, Kenji; Long, Ngo Van - 2012
We formulate a dynamic game model of trade in an exhaustible resource with a quantity-setting cartel. We compute the feedback Nash equilibrium and two Stackelberg equilibria under two different leadership scenarios: leadership by the strategic importing country, and leadership by the exporting...
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Closer look at revealed comparative advantage : gross-versus value added trade flows
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - This version: April 2015
With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
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