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Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade
Osnago, Alberto; Piermartini, Roberta; Rocha, Nadia - 2015
commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs- what is also known as tariffs … equivalent to a level of tariffs between 1.7 and 8.7 percentage points. …
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A novel framework to evaluate changes in access to and costs of trade finance
Auboin, Marc; Bekkers, Eddy; De Quarti, Dario - 2023
In this paper we integrate the costs of trade finance in a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to evaluate the trade and output effects of counterfactual policy experiments on costs of and access to trade finance. The costs of financing international trade consist of two components: the...
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More trade for better health? International trade and tariffs on health products
Helble, Matthias - 2012
further indicate that the market of health products is dominated by a small number of developed countries. Looking at tariffs … overall level of tariffs is low, but far from being zero, especially in the last three country groups. Finally, studying the … tariffs on health products in preferential trade agreements between developing countries, the results show that the tariff …
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The layers of the IT Agreement's trade impact
Henn, Christian; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2015
The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four …
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A quantitative assessment of electronic commerce
Schuknecht, Ludger; Pérez-Esteve, Rosa - 1999
This paper tries to assess quantitatively the role of electronic commerce in economic activity and in trade and tariff revenue collection. The share of value added that potentially lends itself to electronic trade represents around 30 percent of GDP, most importantly distribution, finance and...
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Better together: How digital connectivity and regulation reduce trade costs
Bellucci, Chiara; Rubínová, Stela; Piermartini, Roberta - 2023
In this paper we study the impact of digitalization on trade costs in 58 economies over the period 2014 - 2018. Improvements in digital connectivity can reduce trade costs through multiple channels, including better access to information, lower transaction costs, the reduced need for business...
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The WTO Global Trade Costs Index and its determinants
Rubínová, Stela; Sebti, Mehdi - 2021
This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport and travel costs; information and transaction costs; ICT connectedness; trade policy and regulatorydifferences; and governance quality. The WTO Global Trade CostsIndex is based...
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Trade finance and exports: Firm-level evidence from China
Liu, Jiancong; Auboin, Marc; Haile, Beliyou; Wang, Yu - 2024
We use panel data for listed firms from China for 2013-2021 to examine the association between their export earnings and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export...
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Social interactions of migrants and trade outcomes
Tai, Silvio Hong Tiing - 2009
A framework for immigrant’s choice of location is based on recent studies on non-market interactions which explains how migrants concentrate. Applying data on the distribution of immigrants in 95 French provinces, the social interactions are subsequently estimated. This "social component" of...
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The relationship between exchange rates and International Trade: A review of economic literature
Auboin, Marc; Ruta, Michel - 2011
This paper surveys a wide body of economic literature on the relationship between currencies and trade. Specifically, two main issues are investigated: the impact on international trade of exchange rate volatility and of currency misalignments. On average, exchange rate volatility has a negative...
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