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Free Trade Agreements and the movement of business people
Mayer, Thierry; Rapoport, Hillel; Umana-Dajud, Camilo - 2024
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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Beyond EU-US trade dynamics : TTIP effects related to foreign direct investment and innovation
Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017
The international economic debate on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has focused mainly on trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716195
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Three new empirical tests of the pollution haven hypothesis when environmental regulation is endogenous
Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Jayjit - 2011
The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...
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Retaliation against Trump's trade war : why and how the EU should find alternative export markets
Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2025
EU’s retaliation effort. Our empirical modelling finds that while most of the Netherlands’ exports to the USA are at low … USA and EU. The USA’s trade policies could push the Netherlands and the wider EU towards closer economic ties with other … global players, potentially weakening the USA’s geopolitical standing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015330232
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2007
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577801
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. -- China ; TFP growth ; economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735417
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The impact of new free trade agreements on incumbent firms and workers
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2023
Trade policies might affect firms' market power and their ability to reap product-market mark-ups. Thus, potentially they influence not only firms' economic performance, but also worker pay. Utilising panel-data on Norwegian Manufacturing exporters from 2005-18 and multi-product production...
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Knowledge spillovers, ICT and productivity growth
Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cécilia - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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An empirical analysis of trade-related redistribution and the political viability of free trade
Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014
Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the...
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No pain, no gain : the effects of exports on effort, injury, and illness
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect individual workers' effort, injury, and illness. We find that...
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