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Trade with Central and Eastern Europe : Is it Really a Threat to Wages in the West?
Polgar, Eva Katalin - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138239
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Trade Integration of Central and Eastern European Countries : Lessons from a Gravity Model
Bussière, Matthieu; Fidrmuc, Jarko; Schnatz, Bernd - 2021
This paper analyses the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC's) with the euro area in the past ten years and draws implications for further integration. We use as benchmark an enhanced gravity model estimated for a large sample of bilateral trade flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318195
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Fishing in the Same Pool? Export Strengths and Competitiveness of China and CESEE in the EU-15 Market
Silgoner, Maria Antoinette - 2013
We investigate the impact of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of the ten Central, Eastern and … goods and transport equipment. Overall, competition between CESEE-10 and China intensified as a result of their outstanding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081458
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Evaluating China's Integration in World Trade with a Gravity Model Based Benchmark
Bussière, Matthieu; Schnatz, Bernd - 2021
The rapid transition of China from a closed agricultural society to an industrial powerhouse has been associated with a … rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … have been arising ranging from holding China partly responsible for global imbalances to complaints about the "excessive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317365
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Modelling Intra- and Extra-Area Trade Substitution and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area
Dieppe, Alistair; Warmedinger, Thomas - 2021
The paper proposes a modelling approach for euro area goods and services trade volumes and prices on the basis of a break-down of trade data into their intra- and extra-area components. Using the evidence from the newly estimated trade equations, the paper gives new insights into two important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317054
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Mars or Mercury Redux : The Geopolitics of Bilateral Trade Agreements
Eichengreen, Barry - 2019
We analyze the role of economic and security considerations in bilateral trade agreements. We use the pre-World War I period to test whether trade agreements are governed by pecuniary factors, such as distance and other frictions measured by gravity covariates, or by geopolitical factors. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891795
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Is China Climbing Up the Quality Ladder? Estimating Cross Country Differences in Product Quality Using Eurostat's COMEXT Trade Database
Pula, Gabor - 2011
There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the … values reflect quality the prevailing view of the literature is that China exports low quality varieties of the same products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129033
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Has Emerging Asia Decoupled? An Analysis of Production and Trade Linkages Using the Asian International Input-Output Table
Pula, Gabor - 2009
Due to the emergence of global production networks, trade statistics have became less accurate in describing the dependence of emerging Asia on external demand. This paper analyses, using an update of the Asian International Input-Output (AIO) table, the interdependence of emerging Asian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765710
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Modelling Global Trade Flows : Results from a GVAR Model
Bussière, Matthieu - 2015
This paper uses a Global Vector Auto-Regression (GVAR) model in a panel of 21 emerging market and advanced economies to investigate the factors behind the dynamics of global trade flows, with a particular view on the issue of global trade imbalances and on the conditions of their unwinding. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039364
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From Carry Trades to Curvy Trades
Dreher, Ferdinand - 2018
Traditional carry trade strategies are based on differences in short-term interest rates, neglecting any other information embedded in yield curves. We derive return distributions of carry trade portfolios among G10 currencies, where the signals to buy and sell currencies are based on summary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920109