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Food prices and the multiplier effect of export policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115149
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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of effective protection in about 50 developed and developing countries from 1995 to 2008. The paper reviews also the role of preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124457
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A new look at the extensive trade margin effects of trade facilitation
Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
employ an identification strategy whereby only exports of new products, or exports to new destinations, are taken into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114995
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Costa Rica: Trade opening, FDI attraction and global production sharing
Monge-Ariño, Francisco - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2011
boost the share of total exports benefiting from preferential access in the destination markets from 24% to over 83%. Along … exports and inserting a fair share of the economy into Global Value Chains (GVCs) . As a result, about 43% of the country …'s total exports are related to GVCs, with an average of 36% of such exported value being added domestically. Labor and capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115005
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Timeliness and contract enforceability in intermediate goods trade
Gamberoni, Elisa; Lanz, Rainer; Piermartini, Roberta - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2010
In particular, the ability to export on time is crucial to explain comparative advantage in intermediate goods. These findings underscore the importance of investing in infrastructure and fostering trade facilitation to boost a country's participation in production networks. Furthermore, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115037
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Clustering value-added trade: Structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
-active GVC up-grading strategies, such as investments in ICT and R&D tend to foster a higher foreign content in exports … exporting higher share of domestic content, except in services exports; but in this case, export volumes remain marginal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115055
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"Expect the unexpected"? LDC GATS commitments as internationally credible policy indicators? The example of Mali
Honeck, Dale - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2011
There is a stark contrast between the ambitious investment promotion efforts of many least developed countries (LDCs) and their often minimal commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Service (GATS). At a time of urgent need to address domestic infrastructure and investment gaps, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115056
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Services rules in regional trade agreements: How diverse and how creative as compared to the GATS multilateral rules?
Latrille, Pierre; Lee, Juneyoung - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
The study tries first to assess the extent of similarities and divergences among services rules in regional trade agreements as compared to the GATS. To do so, it uses a typology identifying variations in 48 key provisions structured under seven themes commonly found in RTAs and using the GATS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115062
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A probabilistic approach to the use of econometric models in sunset reviews
Keck, Alexander; Malashevich, Bruce; Gray, Ian - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2006
Economists have increasingly become involved in trade remedy and litigation matters that call for economic interpretation or quantification. The literature on the use of econometric methods in response to legal requirements of trade policy is rather limited. This article contributes to filling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115066
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Market access provisions on trade in goods in regional trade agreements
Crawford, Jo-Ann - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
This paper assembles detailed information on the market access provisions in trade in goods contained in 192 active regional trade agreements (RTAs) notified to the WTO as of November 2010. Although market access provisions in trade in goods in RTAs have been addressed in a number of studies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115083