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China's overinvestment and international trade conflict
Schnabl, Gunther - 2019
postpone a restructuring of the Chinese economy by low-interest credit provision. The resulting gradual reemergence of quasi …
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Import processing and trade costs
Carballo, Jeronimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021
Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing...
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The falling elasticity of global trade to economic activity : testing the demand channel
Auboin, Marc; Borino, Floriana - 2018
Since the recovery from the great financial crisis in 2010, global real trade flows grew much slower than pre-crisis, in both absolute terms (growth rates) and relative terms (relative to GDP, from 2:1 in the great 1990's to 1:1 since 2012) A debate has arisen as to whether this global trade...
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The empire project : trade policy in interwar Canada
Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - 2023
This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyse the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
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Commercial culture, political culture and the political economy of trade policy : the case of Japan
Katayama, Seiichi; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2000
In this paper we present a model of endogenous trade-policy formation which captures crucial aspects of the Japanese commercial and political culture. We analyze the influence of the portrayed cultural traits and show that cultural idiosyncrasies are important determinants of trade policy...
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The international economics of natural resources and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497703
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Transportation costs and the great divergence
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014
This work shows the asymmetric effect of the reduction in transportation costs across different sectors in the process of the Great Divergence. Specifically, the analysis indicates that reductions in transportation costs of industrial goods enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading...
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A factor augmentation formulation of the value of international trade
Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Brown, John Christopher - 2012
assumptions on consumer rationality or data from the economy's autarky equilibrium, our formulation reveals information about both … employments in 19th-century Japan permits us to apply this approach to answer the following counterfactual: What factor … augmentation would have been necessary to compensate the economy for an overnight suspension of trade in its early trade years of …
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Business cycles, international trade and capital flows : evidence from Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2012
American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the …
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Do natural resources depress income per capita?
Arezki, Rabah; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2010
Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in...
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