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computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the latest version of the GTAP database to simulate the effect of … doubling non-tariff barriers - both unilateral and reciprocal - between the two blocks on trade and welfare. Imposing trade … to cooperate rather than turning away from each other. By imposing a trade war on Russia, the political West could …
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of time consistency of liberalization under the so-called Bogor target of achieving free trade within APEC in 2010 (2020 …
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Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the industrial specialization of European regions, thereby potentially affecting the extent of disparities between countries and regions. This paper reviews several theoretical...
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We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The main results are: (i) Exporting is positively...
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The paper measures income elasticities of demand for manufacturing imports in China since 1990 disaggregated by major trading partners such as the US, Japan, Germany and rest of the EU. German exporters seem to have benefited from the hightest demand elasticities. The paper proposes explanatory...
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ten years, it has grown to accumulated 1 Trillion USD. In times of severe trade policy disagreements across the Atlantic … USD. In the former case, national statistics on net services trade disagree by as much as 55 billion USD; in the latter …
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China's merchandise trade surplus has reached an all-time high and is likely to rise further. A key driver appears to … trading partners with high trade deficits with China. As this constellation could be the source of growing trade conflicts …, this article analyses China's growing trade surplus in several dimensions with a focus on Chinas trade relation to the EU. …
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In the past, the European Union seems to have been able to tame Euroscepticism through regional 'convergence' funding. After the Eastern enlargement of the Union, however, this relationship needs to be put to the test. Not only have the new member states become the main recipients of EU funding,...
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The paper discusses the relevance of past concerns about trade and foreign direct investment diversion to the detriment …), trade resistance factors on the EU import side can be explained mainly by slow growth in Europe in the first half of the … nineties rather than by SMP-induced trade barriers. Concerning integration widening toward Central and Eastern Europe (CEE …
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This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used …, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the …
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