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Engler, Philipp; Tervala, Juha - 2016

Several studies have analyzed the trade and output effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union, but our paper is the first attempt to study its welfare effects. We measure the welfare effect of TTIP as the percentage of...

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How have EU's trade agreements impacted consumers?

Breinlich, Holger; Dhingra, Swati; Ottaviano, Gianmarco … - 2016

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Machine learning in international trade research : evaluating the impact of trade agreements

Breinlich, Holger; Corradi, Valentina; Rocha, Nadia; … - 2021

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Staggered difference-in-differences in gravity settings : revisiting the effects of trade agreements

Nagengast, Arne J.; Yotov, Yoto - 2023

We nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimates in the current gravity literature may be...

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Was Singapore extraordinary? A comparative view of Singapore's saving performance 1965-99

Hopf, Gregor - 2009

Although the mere observation of saving aggregates might have us believe differently, this article argues that Singapore's sustained high saving performance was far from extraordinary once the country's particular circumstances are econometrically controlled for. Singapore's saving performance...

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Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China

Wilson, Ross - 2015

This study uses heterogeneous panel Granger causality tests to investigate the causal relationships between quality of governance and economic growth at the provincial level in China during the reform era. I find a significant and positive effect of economic growth on subsequent quality of...

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Pre-Industrial and Post-War Economic Development: Is There a Link?

Burkett, John; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis - 1997

What became the post-War era’s “less developed countries” (LDCs) varied enormously in their pre- modern or pre-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as that of the demographer Ester Boserup,...

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Concepts and realities of family farming in Asia and the Pacific

Ye, Jingzhong; Pan, Lu - 2016

The Asia and the Pacific region has the largest number of family farms in the world. It is home to 60 per cent of the … less than 2 hectares on average, family farmers in Asia and the Pacific produce 80 per cent of the total food needed to …-economic development and well-being of the entire population of Asia and the Pacific. As the reports for the Food and Agriculture …

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Service sector growth in India: A view from households

Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2015

This paper studies the phenomenon of service-led growth in India over the past two decades from the perspective of household expenditure. We use consumption expenditure data from four recent "thick" rounds of the National Sample Survey in 1993-94, 2004-05, 2009-10 and 2011-12, and study...

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Asian Economic Integration: ASEAN+3+1 or ASEAN+1s?

Batra, Amita - 2006

In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia. For … the purpose, Asia is defined as inclusive of ASEAN, the plus three economies of China, Japan, Korea and India that is the … ASEAN plus four. Given that ASEAN is an existing regional bloc in Asia, alternative approaches to the alignment of the plus …

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