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Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … World Input Output Database (WIOD). We also explore the consequences of labor mobility across local labor markets in Germany …
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The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on … underestimation of deep integration projects such as TTIP. The panel data estimation of knowledge production functions for 20 EU … trade related real income gains in the context of TTIP - also contributes to new knowledge and a fortiori to higher GDP …
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Using provisions to ease the movement of business visitors in trade agreements, we show that removing barriers to the movement of business people promotes trade. We document the increasing complexity of Free Trade Agreements and develop an algorithm that combines machine learning and text...
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This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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Before the recent rebound due to the US-China trade war, tariffs on international trade were being progressively reduced over the last decades and advanced countries increasingly relied on non-tariff measures (NTMs) to protect their industries from foreign competition. In this paper, we exploit...
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We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries facing larger tariff cuts experienced relative declines...
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This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of...
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probability of voting in favor of an FTA for the median representative. In addition, a one standard deviation decrease in …
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This paper assesses the empirical relationship between the liberalization of international trade and the economic status of women. Although historically globalization is not generally linked to the advancement of women, several recent country studies find export led growth in middle and low...
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world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the … heterogeneity in the degree of globalization over time and across countries and regions of the World, as well as within countries …
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