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Who Is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms
Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023
and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in … dependent on Russia as an export market and those directly affected by the sanctions. …In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …
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Economic Sanctions and Trade Flows in the Neighbourhood
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Nistico, Roberto - 2023
costs as sanctions disrupt trade. Yet, case studies uncover heterogeneity in countries' responses, with some cases …We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states …. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic …
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Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of dirty goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269931
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Trade Liberalization, Economic Activity, and Political Violence in the Global South: Evidence from PTAs
Amodio, Francesco; Baccini, Leonardo; Chiovelli, Giorgio; … - 2023
This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296755
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Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T.N.; … - 2018
Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...
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On the pro-trade effects of immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2012
countries of origin of immigrants ('super-diversity'), the high heterogeneity of social and economic characteristics of Italian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287654
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Trade liberalization and employment effects in Ukraine
Christev, Atanas; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2005
This paper addresses the important issue of the effects of trade liberalization on labor market job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as a quasi-natural experiment. We use disaggregated data on manufacturing industries and customs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267559
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New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
Sloczynski, Tymon - 2015
conclusions change dramatically after allowing for heterogeneity in effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401759
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Does Official Development Assistance Affect Donor's Export? Case of Korea
Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653281
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports
Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2018
In this paper we highlight a new complementary channel to the business and social network effect à la Rauch (2001) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin: they can become entrepreneurs. Using very small-scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816552