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the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …
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language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we … study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th largest apparel supplier to the United States market in 2020. Recent … sector. The economy-wide male-female wage gap for less-educated workers in Bangladesh dropped by more than half with the …
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International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic … growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made … the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic …
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In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very …
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Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign … country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such bilateral trust on international trade and …
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capacity, the increased strategic importance of natural resources and the increased interregional trade flow. I also …
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In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...
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This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
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. Using unique panel data on trade flows among beef farms in the Italian region of Piedmont, we analyze a purely sequential …
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the UK benefited from EU integration (trade, migration and FDI). Next it surveys the short-run effects of the vote and …
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