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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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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 …

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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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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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A comparison of global governance across sectors : global health, trade, and multilateral development finance

Helble, Matthias; Ali, Zulfiqar; Lego, Jera - 2018

To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank remain central today … actors to participate, making it more representative of the current world order and making it possible to mobilize more …

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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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Time, uncertainty, and trade flows

Ansón, José; Arvis, Jean-François; Boffa, Mauro; … - 2017

This paper quantifies the impact of international transport time on bilateral trade flows in goods using previously unexploited information drawn from a large dataset on international parcel delivery times. In line with previous work, we find that an extra day spent in international transit...

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Trade in health products : reducing trade barriers for better health

Helble, Matthias; Shepherd, Benjamin - 2017

throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … present evidence that countries around the world still apply tariffs and nontariff measures that increase prices and limit the … World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement as a starting point, can be linked to improved handling of health …

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