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The cost of EU trade protection in textiles and clothing
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
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 textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472459
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The expansion of intra-Asian trade : an analysis of structural patterns and determinants
Langhammer, Rolf J. - 1997
The paper analyses sectoral patterns of intra-Asian trade for selected Asian countries as well as for sub-regions within Asia. Beyond a general trend towards manufactures, it reveals remarkable differences in specialisation profiles between lagging South Asian countries still concentrating on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472090
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The German economy and EU industrial tariff reductions : partial and CGE analyses of a stillborn Millennium Round
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472473
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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020
equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269824
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WTO negotiations and accession issues for vulnerable economies
Langhammer, Rolf J.; Lücke, Matthias - 2000
they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it … easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and actively participate in the WTO. The main conclusion is that the benefits … from WTO membership in terms of improved market access for traditional exports are likely to be limited. However, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490730
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On the effects of sanctions on trade and welfare : new evidence based on structural gravity and a new database
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yalçin, … - 2019
Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020082
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Friendly fire - the trade impact of the Russia sanctions and counter-sanctions
Crozet, Matthieu; Hinz, Julian - 2016
Economic sanctions are a frequent instrument of foreign policy. In a diplomatic conflict, they aim to elicit a change in the policies of foreign governments by damaging their economy. However, sanctions are not costless for the sending economy, where domestic firms involved in business with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561723
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Critically important : the heterogeneous effect of politics on trade
Hinz, Julian; Leromain, Elsa - 2017
The proliferation of international supply chains makes the domestic production of goods increasingly dependent on inputs from foreign sources. By expanding their sourcing portfolio to foreign suppliers, firms and by extension entire economies are more prone to the trade effects of adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745992
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The cost of sanctions : estimating lost trade with gravity
Hinz, Julian - 2017
Economic sanctions are a frequently used tool of foreign policy. Constraining trade flows towards or from the target country is supposed to coerce its government into changing certain policies. However, sanctions constitute an obstacle to trade, thereby affecting flows of all countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746005
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Subsidies and exports in Germany : first evidence from enterprise panel data
Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800468