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Effective trade costs and the current account : an empirical analysis

Boz, Emine; Li, Nan; Zhang, Hongrui - 2019

A view receiving increased support is that the height of trade costs in prime export sectors has a strong effect on current account balances: countries specializing in sectors that face relatively high trade costs, such as services, tend to run current account deficits, and similarly, countries...

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Trade Costs, Market Integration, and Macroeconomic Volatility

Naknoi, Kanda - 2003

This paper examines the effects of trade costs on macroeconomic volatility. We first construct a dynamic, two-country general equilibrium model, where the degree of market integration depends directly on trade costs (transport costs, tariffs, etc.). The model is a extension of Obstfeld and...

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Distribution costs

Peter, Alessandra; Ruane, Cian - 2021

We provide the first direct estimates of distribution expenses incurred by manufacturing plants and assess their importance for aggregate output. Using a novel measure from the Indian Annual Survey of Industries, we document three key facts: (1) distribution expenses are large - they amount to...

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Do Long-Run Productivity Differentials Explain Long-Run Real Exchange Rates?

Asea, Patrick K. - 1994

Balassa-Samuelson model, namely that (i) productivity differentials determine the domestic relative price of nontradables and …. The evidence indicates that labor productivity differentials do explain long-run, cross-country differences in relative …

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In Search of WTO Trade Effects : Preferential Trade Agreements Promote Trade Strongly, But Unevenly

Eicher, Theo S. - 2009

The literature measuring the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) and WTO membership on trade flows has produced remarkably diverse results. Rose''s (2004) seminal paper reports a range of specifications that show no WTO effects, but Subramanian and Wei (2007) contend that he does not...

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Measuring the Trade Effects of EMU

Faruqee, Hamid - 2004

This paper examines the impact of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on trade within the euro area. Using panel data for 22 industrial countries, the analysis estimates the effect of the euro''s arrival on area-wide trade compared to bilateral trade flows between other industrial...

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The role of market structure and timing in determining VAT pass-through

Bellon, Matthieu; Copestake, Alexander - 2021

first extend existing theory to characterize the roles of imperfect competition and product differentiation, then …

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The macroeconomic effects of trade tariffs : revisiting the Lerner symmetry result

Lindé, Jesper; Pescatori, Andrea - 2017

We study the robustness of the Lerner symmetry result in an open economy New Keynesian model with price rigidities. While the Lerner symmetry result of no real effects of a combined import tariff and export subsidy holds up approximately for a number of alternative assumptions, we obtain...

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The Global Welfare Impact of China : Trade Integration and Technological Change

Di Giovanni, Julian - 2012

Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … ""balanced"" one in which China''s productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an ""unbalanced"" one in which China …''s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …

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The global welfare impact of China : trade integration and technological change

Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Zhang, Jing - 2012

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