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Are Preferential Agreements Beneficial to EU Trade? New Evidence from the EU-South Korea Treaty
Quintieri, Beniamino; Stamato, Giovanni - 2023
This paper empirically investigates the effect of the EU-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) on manufacturing trade flows. By applying a state-of-the-art structural gravity model with intranational (i.e., domestic) trade and using disaggregated data, we quantify both the trade impact and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356357
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Trade with central and eastern Europe: Is it really a threat to wages in the west?
Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605290
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Managers’ Mobility, Trade Performance, and Wages
Mion, Giordano - 2013
Knowledge is key to the success of a firm. Firms and their managers acquire knowledge via channels which are often difficult to track down and quantify. By matching employer-employee data with trade data at the firm level we show that the export experience acquired by managers in previous firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074756
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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 … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an … important driver of wages, since the wage response to trade is small. Moreover, in line with the Stolper-Samuelson reasoning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138239
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Euro's influence upon trade: Rose effect versus border effect
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2008
This paper assesses the Euro’s influence upon European trade by estimating two different indicators. The first is the so-called “Rose Effect”, while the second is the “Border Effect”. The former measures how much a country within a currency union trades more with its partners than with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604987
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Crisis-proof services: Why trade in services did not suffer during the 2008-2009 collapse
Ariu, Andrea - 2014
During the 2008-2009 crisis trade in goods experienced the deepest decline ever recorded. Surprisingly, trade in services came through the crisis unscathed and some service categories carelessly stuck to their growth paths. Using firm-product-destination exports for Belgium, we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605736
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Intra-industry trade between CESEE countries and the EU15
Dautovic, Ernest; Orszaghova, Lucia; Schudel, Willem - 2014
The rapid increase in intra-industry trade (IIT) between the EU15 and Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European (CESEE) countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union indicates a structural change in the nature of trade in CESEE and a new process of transition and real convergence to the EU....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605764
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Exports and capacity constraints - a smooth transition regression model for six euro area countries
Belke, Ansgar; Oeking, Anne; Setzer, Ralph - 2014
This paper argues that, under certain conditions, firms consider export activity as a substitute of serving domestic demand. Our econometric model for six euro area countries suggests domestic demand pressure and capacity constraint restrictions as additional variables of a properly specified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605785
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Assessing European firms' exports and productivity distributions: the CompNet trade module
Berthou, Antoine; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Bugamelli, Matteo; … - 2015
This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605833
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Are preferential agreements beneficial to EU trade? New evidence from the EU-South Korea treaty
Quintieri, Beniamino; Stamato, Giovanni - 2023
This paper empirically investigates the effect of the EU-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) on manufacturing trade flows. By applying a state-of-the-art structural gravity model with intranational (i.e., domestic) trade and using disaggregated data, we quantify both the trade impact and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374754