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Chinese Trade Reforms, Market Access and Foreign Competition : The Patterns of French Exporters
Bas, Maria; Bombarda, Pamela - 2013
A unilateral trade reform generates two opposite effects: market access expansion and strengthening of competitive pressures in the liberalized market. Using detailed trade and firm-level data from France, the authors investigate how French firms' product scope and export sales changed after...
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Export Entrepreneurship and Trade Structure in Latin America during Good and Bad Times
Fernandes, Ana M.; Lederman, Daniel; Gutierrez-Rocha, Mario - 2013
external demand (2008-2009). Export entrepreneurship is equated with the extensive margin of exports, namely the advent of new …) the low growth of exports during the global recession of 2008-2009 in Latin America and the Caribbean was due to lower … growth in exports of incumbent firms' pre-existing products and destinations, while new products and destinations tended to …
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Does Regionalism Affect Trade Liberalization toward Non-Members?
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Freund, Caroline; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2012
This paper examines the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied most-favored nation tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001. The findings show that preferential tariff reduction in a given sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552541
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The Effect of Male Migration for Work on Employment Patterns of Females in Nepal
Lokshin, Michael; Glinskaya, Elena - 2012
This paper assesses the impact of work-related migration by males on the labor market behavior of females in Nepal. Using data from the 2004 Nepal household survey, the authors apply the Instrumental Variable Full Information Maximum Likelihood method to account for unobserved factors that could...
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Openness, Industrialization, and Geographic Concentration of Activities in China
Catin, Maurice; Luo, Xubei; Van Huffel, Christophe - 2012
Rapid development, a widening regional gap, and growing concentration of activities have characterized the Chinese economy since the reforms in the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial disparities of the economic concentration in different stages of development from a geographic approach...
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Public Policy and Industrial Transformation in the Process of Development
Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Dinh, Hinh T. - 2013
This paper studies the role of public policy in promoting industrial transformation from an imitationbased, low-skill economy to an innovation-based, high-skill economy, where technological progress now occurs through the domestic invention of ideas. Industrial transformation is measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559440
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Growth and Risk : A View from International Trade
Krishna, Pravin; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Maloney, William F. - 2020
(Harmonized System 10- digit) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012568116
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Economic Partnership Agreements and the Export Competitiveness of Africa
Brenton, Paul; Hoppe, Mombert; Newfarmer, Richard - 2012
Trade can be a key driver of growth for African countries, as it has been for those countries, particularly in East Asia, that have experienced high and sustained rates of growth. Economic partnership agreements with the European Union could be instrumental in a competitiveness framework, but to...
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The Anatomy of China's Export Growth
Amiti, Mary; Freund, Caroline - 2012
's manufacturing exports remained unchanged, once processing trade is excluded. Third, export growth was accompanied by increasing …
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Identifying Supply-Side Constraints to Export Performance in Ecuador : An Exercise with Investment Climate Survey Data
Correa, Paulo; Dayoub, Mariam; Francisco, Manuela - 2012
The authors apply a Heckman selection model to the 2003 Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to investigate supply-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador. To correct for the non-random truncation problems, they use the Heckman selection model to estimate the probability...
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