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Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution

Jacks, David S. - 2010

What is the role of transport improvements in globalization? We argue that the nineteenth century is the ideal testing …

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Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization

Jacks, David S.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Novy, Dennis - 2021

What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224437

Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs

Jacks, David S. - 2010

, Europe, and Oceania for the period from 1870 to 2000 and demonstrate an overriding role for declining trade costs in the pre-World … War I trade boom. In contrast, for the post-World War II trade boom we identify changes in output as the dominant force …

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Trade, Variety, and Immigration

Bo, Chen - 2012

What are the gains from international trade? And how do immigrants influence this process? While economists have considered these questions before, particularly in the context of aggregate trade flows, there has been no work assessing the relation between immigration and international trade in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108248

From global factory to global mall : East Asia's changing trade composition

Helble, Matthias; Ngiang, Boon-Loong - 2014

been the most successful region in the world in building up or joining regional and global supply chains and has been … one of the biggest "malls" in the world. Whereas in 1999 - 2000 around half of all consumption goods exported by East Asia … of the world. …

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On the Death of Distance and Borders : Evidence from the Nineteenth Century

Jacks, David S. - 2010

In this paper, we investigate time-dependent border and distance effects in the nineteenth century and document clear declines in the importance of these variables through time. What this suggests, in light of the work for the post-1950 era, is that researchers might have correctly identified...

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How can environmental regulations spur international trade? : the case of the EU Performance of Buildings Directive and Lessons for Asia

Helble, Matthias; Majoe, Adam - 2017

International trade is one of the key mechanisms for the diffusion of energy efficient technologies. Yet, little is known how regulations to fight climate change affect the international trade in goods needed to increase energy efficiency. This paper studies the case of the Energy Performance of...

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Shifting towards a consumer-centered economy and the implications for international trade

Helble, Matthias - 2018

Globalization has radically changed the way in how goods and services are produced. The impact of globalization on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797425

Salvaging the trans-pacific partnership : building blocks for regional and multilateral trade opening?

Helble, Matthias - 2017

The high hopes that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would open up trade across the Pacific were dashed by the decision of the new US Government under President Trump to withdraw from the agreement in January 2017. Despite being controversial, the TPP had been recognized as an agreement that...

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The Pacific's connectivity and its trade implications

Helble, Matthias - 2014

their small size and remoteness from major world markets. In this paper we study the importance of transport connectivity … for Pacific economies when participating in the world economy. The paper first describes the evolution of trade flows of … datasets. One contains all shipping connections within the Pacific and with the rest of the world; the second all flight …

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