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World’s Knowledge Spillovers: Beyond Openness and Growth
Veeramani, C. - In: Journal of Economic Integration 29 (2014), pp. 298-328
Capital goods industries, for example, nuclear reactors, steam and vapour turbines, air or gas compressors, filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus are intrinsically heterogeneous in terms of vintages and the level of technological knowledge embodied in their products. Countries decide to...
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The Impact of the Exchange Rate Regime on Exports: Evidence from the European Monetary System
Fountas, Stilianos; Aristotelous, Kyriacos - In: Journal of Economic Integration 20 (2005), pp. 567-589
impact of the creation of the European Monetary System (EMS) on the volume of intra-European Union (EU) exports for eight EU … countries. We find that for Ireland the EMS boosted the volume of intra-EU exports, whereas for Belgium, Denmark, and Germany …, the EMS led to a decline in intra-EU exports. In the rest of the countries, there has not been a significant effect …
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What is Holding Back EU Exports to China?
Evenett, Simon J.; Fritz, Johannes; Wermelinger, Martin - In: Journal of Economic Integration 28 (2013), pp. 393-411
Access to the fast-growing Chinese economy is prized by policymakers and business people but concerns that European firms are missing out on the Chinese boom have led to soul-searching concerning Europe’s competitiveness and to criticism leveled at Chinese protectionism. This paper examines...
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Market Dynamics in the EU, NAFTA, North East Asia and ASEAN: the Method of Constant Market Shares (CMS) Analysis
Widodo, Tri - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 480-500
One of the main aims of the regionalism and economic integration is to encourage export performance, especially intra-regional trade. The Constant Market Shares (CMS) method is commonly to examine empirically the countries’ export performance. This paper is addressed to examine the regions’...
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Alabama Forest Products and the Potential Impacts of FTAA Price Changes
Thompson, Henry; Malki, Mostafa - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 130-143
The Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA will increase import competition for some forest product industries in Alabama but create export opportunities for others. Forest products loom large in the Alabama economy, both in terms of income and pollution. The present paper gauges the potential...
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Trade Blocks and the Gravity Model: A Study of Economic Integration among Asian Developing Countries
Ekanayake, E. M.; Mukherjee, Amit - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 627-643
This paper analyzes the trade creation and trade diversion effects of the regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Asia and their effects on intra-regional trade flows using annual trade data for the period 1980-2009. The research will attempt to achieve the following objectives: (a) analyze the...
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Technology Advantage and Home-market Effect: An Empirical Investigation
Huang, Yo-Yi; Huang, Deng-Shing - In: Journal of Economic Integration 26 (2011), pp. 81-109
According to the conventional home-market effect, free trade tends to shrink the market share for a small economy in differentiated manufacturing goods, and in the extreme leads to a complete hollowing-out of the industry in a small economy. This paper considers the technology difference between...
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Modeling Services Liberalization: The Case of Tanzania
G. Tarr, David; F. Rutherford, Thomas - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 644-675
Despite economic theory and empirical literature that have shown that wide availability of business services contributes significantly to productivity gains and growth, economic modelers have been slow to meaningfully incorporate services into their models. This paper employs a 52-sector, small,...
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Does Immigration Stimulate Foreign Trade? Evidence from Sweden
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 376-402
Foreign born people are uniquely qualified to stimulate trade between their present country of residence and the country in which they were born. This study provides an empirical investigation of the link between migration and trade flows for Sweden. Trade and migration data for Sweden and 180...
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Quality Competition Versus Price Competition Goods: An Empirical Classification
E. Baldwin, Richard; Ito, Tadashi - In: Journal of Economic Integration 26 (2011), pp. 110-135
trade model, we classify exports at the HS 6-digit level as being characterised by either quality or price competition. We …
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