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Rogue aid? : The determinants of China's aid allocation

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas - 2011

Foreign aid from China is often characterized as "rogue aid" that is not guided by recipient need but by China …, covering the 1956-2006 period, to empirically test to which extent political and commercial interests shape China's aid … allocation decisions. We estimate the determinants of China's allocation of project aid, food aid, medical teams and total aid …

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Trade and investment in the global economy

Anderson, James E.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017

We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology capital. The model nests structural gravity subsystems for FDI and trade, with accumulation/decumulation of phyisical and technology capital in transition to the steady state....

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Domestic value added in exports : theory and firm evidence from China

Kee, Hiau Looi; Tang, Heiwai - 2015

China has defied the declining trend in domestic content in exports in many countries. We study China's rising domestic … aggregation bias. We find that the substitution of domestic for imported materials by individual processing exporters caused China …

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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019

industry. Using firm level data from China, we document that wholesalers play no such role for direct importers. However, other …

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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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Quality misallocation, trade, and regulations

Macedoni, Luca; Weinberger, Ariel - 2021

Recent trade agreements have shifted their focus to non-tariff barriers such as regulations and product standards, which have been traditionally treated as pure domestic policies. The imposition of such standards reallocates production from small to large, high quality ﬁrms. We model...

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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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International spillovers of quality regulations

Macedoni, Luca; Weinberger, Ariel - 2024

This paper investigates the positive international spillover eﬀects of non-discriminatory product regulations, such as quality standards. We incorporate regulations into a multi-country general equilibrium framework with ﬁrm heterogeneity and variable markups. We model regulations as a...

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Everything you always wanted to know about EU membership trade effects but were afraid to ask

Oberhofer, Harald; Wang, Zhenyi - 2025

This paper studies the role of dataset choices for trade policy estimates in structural gravity models. Using twelve publicly available data sources and applying alternative and commonly used dataset restrictions, we obtain 586 estimates for the EU membership trade effects from a standard...

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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income : a new panel IV approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2011

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...

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