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Impacton Intra-European Trade Agreements, 1990-2005 : Policy Implications for the Western Balkans and Ukraine

Qiao, Zhaogang - 2007

The paper provides quantitative estimates of the impact of the European trade agreements on trade flows. It applies both static and dynamic panel estimation techniques. The results are useful to policymakers because new intra-European trade agreements are being negotiated. In the absence of a...

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Can Regional Integration Accelerate Development in Africa? : CGE Model Simulations of the Impact of the SADC FTAon the Republic of Madagascar

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2007

Madagascar plans to start phasing out its customs tariffs on imports from the Southern African Development Community in 2007. This paper uses a CGE model to evaluate the impact of the SADC FTA on Madagascar economy. The results suggest that the SADC FTA would only have a limited impact on...

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Another piece of the puzzle : adding SWIFT data on documentary collections to the short-term forecast of world trade

Ghazaryan, Narek; Goumilevski, Alexei; Mongardini, Joannes - 2021

This paper extends earlier research by adding SWIFT data on documentary collections to the short-term forecast of international trade. While SWIFT documentary collections accounted for just over one percent of world trade financing in 2020, they have strong explanatory power to forecast world...

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Are bilateral trade balances irrelevant?

Eugster, Johannes L.; Jaumotte, Florence; MacDonald, Margaux - 2020

Based on an empirical gravity model of sectoral bilateral trade, we uncover three features of bilateral trade balances. First, the difficulty of gravity models in fitting the observed level of bilateral balances is likely due to the presence of unobservable bilateral trade costs. Second, the...

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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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The trade impact of China on EMU : is it even across members?

Mikkelsen, Uffe; Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2012

This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected …

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The Shifting Structure of China's Trade and Production

Cui, Li - 2007

This paper uses disaggregated trade data to assess how the expansion of China''s production capacity and its changing … production structure may be affecting its trade linkages with other countries. It finds that China is moving away from … components. In turn, China''s imports and exports have begun to delink, with increased domestic sourcing contributing to the …

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China : International Trade and WTO Accession

Blancher, Nicolas R. - 2004

China''s increasing integration with the global economy has contributed to sustained growth in international trade. Its … China''s imports from all regions-especially Asia, where China plays an increasingly central role in regional specialization …. Tariff reforms have been implemented in China since the 1980s; and, with its recent WTO accession, China has committed itself …

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The Trade Impact of China on EMU : Is It Even Across Members?

Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2012

This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395707

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

di Giovanni, Julian - 2012

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China''s trade integration and technological change in a quantitative … ""balanced"" one in which China''s productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an ""unbalanced"" one in which China … magnitude larger welfare gains when China''s productivity growth is biased towards its comparative disadvantage sectors. We …

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