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North-South trade: the impact of robotization

Baur, Andreas; Flach, Lisandra; Gourevich, Isabella; … - 2023

value chain. Using a novel combination of data sources including firm-level export data, input-output linkages, and robot … adoption, we show contrasting implications for Southern firms. Increased exposure to robot adoption in the destination country … of exports reduces firm-level exports in case of robot adoption in the same industry. However, the opposite holds when …

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The implications of the new Silk Road railways on local development

Fang, Ling; Kleimann, Martin; Li, Yuan; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2019

This paper studies regional treatment effects of infrastructure projects on economic growth, employment and intermodal transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics. Our results show that the establishment of a new...

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Modeling international trade flows between CEEC and OECD countries

Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor); … - 2008

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Trade, conflicts, and political integration : the regional interplays

Vicard, Vincent (contributor) - 2006

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Arming in the global economy : the importance of trade with enemies and friends

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019 - Current version: December 10, 2018

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one's incentive to arm given the opponent's...

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Border effects without borders : what divides Japan's Internal Trade?

Wrona, Jens - 2018

This paper identifies a "border" effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan is 23.1 to 51.3 percent lower than trade within both country parts, is established despite the absence of an obvious east-west division due to historical borders, cultural...

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Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Tarasov, Alexander - 2015 - This version: November 2015

The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that reflects a desire to unlock the welfare gains from regional economic integration. Yet, despite being one of the oldest government activities, the economic forces shaping the endogenous...

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Estimating the effects of the container revolution on world trade

Bernhofen, Daniel M.; El-Sahli, Zouheir; Kneller, Richard - 2013

The introduction of containerization triggered complementary technological and organizational changes that revolutionized global freight transport. Despite numerous claims about the importance of containerization in stimulating international trade, econometric estimates on the effects of...

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Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi traders : refuting Edwards and Ogilvie

Greif, Avner (contributor) - 2008

Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...

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Connections and performance in bankers' turnover : better wed over the mixen than over the moor

Battistin, Erich (contributor); Graziano, Clara (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we study top executive turnover in Italian Banks over the period 1993-2001. We relate the probability of survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank...

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