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Collateral Damage : Trade Disruption and the Economic Impact of War
Glick, Reuven - 2005
of World War I and World War II …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467113
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The Effects of Financial Crises on International Trade
Ma, Zihui - 2003
This paper studies empirically the effects of financial crises on international trade. The major findings are that banking crises had a negative impact on imports but a positive impact on exports in the short term, whereas currency crises decreased imports in the short term and stimulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468522
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The Trade and Investment Effects of Preferential Trading Arrangements
Dee, Philippa - 2003
This study quantifies the impact of traditional and new age' provisions of preferential trading arrangements (PTAs) on merchandise trade and investment. It does so by estimating gravity models of bilateral trade and investment. It finds that recent and some past PTAs are not as benign as some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468534
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Estimating the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Output
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2000
Gravity-based cross-sectional evidence indicates that currency unions stimulate trade; cross-sectional evidence indicates that trade stimulates output. This paper estimates the effect that currency union has, via trade, on output per capita. We use economic and geographic data for over 200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470886
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How Do the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" Characteristics of Regional Service Agreements Affect Trade in Services?
Zhou, Nianli - 2014
Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" have become the distinctive characteristics of the service RTAs and this paper aims to investigate and distinguish the different effect of the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458114
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The Impacts of Export Taxes on Agricultural Trade
Beckman, Jayson - 2018
Export taxes, despite being applied by several countries, have not received the same scrutiny in multilateral trade negotiations as other trade barriers. This work seeks to provide more detail into the linkages between export taxes, trade, food prices, and poverty in the agriculture sector. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480549
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Gravity with Gravitas : A Solution to the Border Puzzle
Anderson, James E. - 2001
The gravity model has been widely used to infer substantial trade flow effects of institutions such as customs unions and exchange rate mechanisms. McCallum [1995] found that the US-Canada border led to trade between provinces that is a factor 22 (2,200%) times trade between states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470650
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Currency Wars? Unconventional Monetary Policy Does Not Stimulate Exports
Rose, Andrew K. - 2018
I investigate whether countries that use unconventional monetary policy (UMP) experience export booms. I use a popular gravity model of trade which requires neither the exogeneity of UMP, nor instrumental variables for UMP. In practice, countries that engage in UMP experience a drop in exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452904
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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent … sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533381
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Import Diversion under European Antidumping Policy
Vandenbussche, Hylke - 1999
This paper is the first to study empirically the effects of European antidumping actions on import diversion from importers 'named' in an antidumping investigation, and potentially subject to protectionist measures, to countries not named' in the investigation. For this purpose we use a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471444