Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 564
Cover Image
Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106885
Cover Image
How does the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affect Central America?
Leamer, Edward E.; Guerra, Alfonso; Kaufman, Martin; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1995
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Improvements in per capita income are closely linked with exports to North America of labor …-wage market. But the US market for such exports is now more crowded and threatens to become more so, with exports from China and …. Central America faces a chicken-and-egg problem. To stabilize its terms of trade, it must expand exports of manufactures. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133566
Cover Image
Export performance and geography in Croatia
Artuc, Erhan; Iootty, Mariana; Pirlea, Ana Florina - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
performance, net of distance. Results show that exports are strongly and positively correlated with motorway and road density, the … diversity of exports in terms of products and destinations. Several general policy implications are highlighted. The significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885955
Cover Image
Use of imported inputs and the cost of importing : evidence from developing countries
Amin, Mohammad; Islam, Asif - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
For a representative sample of manufacturing firms in 26 countries, this paper shows that changes in the cost of importing over time are significantly and negatively correlated with changes in the percentage of firms'material inputs that are of foreign origin. Furthermore, the paper shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887963
Cover Image
Reducing trade costs in east Africa : deep regional integration and multilateral action
Balistreri, Edward J.; Tarr, David G.; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
There is substantial evidence that with the progressive global decline in tariffs over several decades, trade costs are a more significant barrier to trade than tariffs, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into three categories: costs that can be lowered by trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932956
Cover Image
Agricultural policies and trade paths in Turkey
Larson, Donald F.; Martin, Will; Sahin, Sebnem; Tsigas, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
In 1959, shortly after the European Economic Community was founded under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Turkey applied for Associate Membership in the then six-member common market. By 1963, a path for integrating the economies of Turkey and the eventual European Union had been mapped. As with many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937209
Cover Image
The critical mass approach to achieve a deal on green goods and services : what is on the table? how much to expect ?
de Melo, Jaime; Vijil, Mariana - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
At the Davos forum of January 2014, a group of 14 countries pledged to launch negotiations on liberalizing trade in"green goods"(also known as"environmental"goods), focusing on the elimination of tariffs for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation list of 54 products. The paper shows that the Davos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938490
Cover Image
Some simple analytics of trade and labor mobility
Artuc, Erhan; Chaudhuri, Shubham; McLaren, John - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper studies a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows researchers to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, duality techniques can be employed to study the equilibrium and, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944689
Cover Image
The gendered labor market impacts of trade liberalization : evidence from Brazil
Gaddis, Isis; Pieters, Janneke - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper investigates gender differences in the impact of Brazil's trade liberalization on labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect of trade reforms, the paper uses difference-in-difference estimation exploiting variation across microregions in pre-liberalization industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960251
Cover Image
Does input tariff reduction impact firms'exports in the presence of import tariff exemption regimes ?
Bussolo, Maurizio; Cruz, Vargas Da; Jose, Marcio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
product diversification. The identification of the effect of input tariffs on exports relies on a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249500