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Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange : The Case of Environmental Treaties

Rose, Andrew; Spiegel, Mark - 2021

We examine the role of non-economic partnerships in promoting international economic exchange. Since far-sighted countries are more willing to join costly international partnerships such as environmental treaties, environmental engagement tends to encourage international lending. Countries with...

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China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa

Besada, Hany - 2008

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …

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China and the Tpp : A Numerical Simulation Assessment of the Effects Involved

Li, Chunding - 2012

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new negotiation on cross border liberalization of goods and service flows going beyond WTO disciplines and focused on issues such as regulation and border controls. Though the US, Australia and other pacific countries are included, China is notable for...

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International Policy Coordination : The Long View

Eichengreen, Barry - 2013

This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...

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Regionalism and Multilateral Tariff Cooperation

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

We consider a 3 country world in which each country's import market is served by competing exporters from its 2 trading partners. We assume that weak multilateral enforcement mechanisms prevent governments from implementing efficient trade policies through a multilateral agreement requiring...

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Introduction to "China's Growing Role in World Trade"

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

Over the last three decades, the value of Chinese trade has approximately doubled every four years. This rapid growth has transformed the country from a negligible player in world trade to the world's second largest exporter, as well as a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate...

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The Role of Extensive and Intensive Margins and Export Growth

Besedeš, Tibor - 2010

We investigate and compare countries' export growth based on their performance at the extensive and intensive export margins. Our empirical approach is motivated by an extension to the Melitz (2003) model of heterogeneous firms in which exporters are subject to a one-time sunk cost and also a...

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A Product-Quality View of the Linder Hypothesis

Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2010

The Linder hypothesis states that countries of similar income per capita should trade more intensely with one another. This hypothesis has attracted substantial research over decades, but the empirical evidence has failed to provide consistent support for it. This paper shows that the reason for...

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Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns

Eaton, Jonathan - 2010

We apply a modified 'gravity model' incorporating measures of factor endowments to analyze Japanese and U.S. bilateral trade flows and direct foreign investment positions with a sample of around 100 countries for the period 1985-1990. Country features that our analysis takes into account are...

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The Finnish Great Depression : From Russia with Love

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015

During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...

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