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Is a 'Factory Southern Africa' feasible? : harnessing flying geese to the South African gateway
Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; Scholvin, Sören; … - 2016
proffer and explore the proposition that South Africa could serve as the gateway for harnessing MNC geese flying from third … African gateways are emerging as alternatives to South Africa. And some SACU governments would prefer to build regional value … South Africa, may not attract many world leading MNCs since their markets are small, but could attract smaller regional …
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The political economy of EU enlargement : or, why Japan is not a candidate country?
Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2002
In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high-income member countries) prefer a mutual market-opening with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409769
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012
We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...
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Bilateral trade imbalances
Cuñat, Alejandro; Zymek, Robert - 2019
Bilateral trade imbalances are determined by aggregate trade imbalances, production and expenditure patterns, and trade barriers. We calibrate a dynamic many-sector trade model to match the recent sectoral trade and production shares of 40 economies and the rest of the world. Through a variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064397
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Political yardstick competition, economic integration, and constitutional choice in a federation
Bodenstein, Martin; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001
This paper investigates the behavior of rent-seeking politicians in an environment of increasing economic integration. The focus of the paper is on the implications of globalization-induced political yardstick competition for constitutional design with a view to the current discussion in the...
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Dynamic fiscal competition : a political economy theory
Arcalean, Calin - 2019
I develop a political economy theory of dynamic fiscal competition via public spending and debt. With internationally mobile capital, strategic policies generate two cross-border externalities that voters in each country fail to internalize: (1) an increase in public spending that bolsters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977194
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Trade, factor mobility and the extent of economic integration : theory and evidence
Mikolajun, Irena; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2015
The Middle East was once seen as a medieval great globalized force. Nowadays it shows one of the lowest intra-regional trade in the world and therefore it is claimed that the region is poorly integrated. Yet, with the steady .ow of workers across national borders of the Middle East is this...
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Corporate tax systems, multinational enterprises, and economic integration
Kind, Hans Jarle; Midelfart-Knarvik, Karen Helene; … - 2004
Multinational firms are known to shift profits and countries are known to compete over shifty profits. Two major principles for corporate taxation are Separate Accounting (SA) and Formula Apportionment (FA). These two principles have very different qualities when it comes to preventing profit...
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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions
Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004
The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...
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