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Export quality in advanced and developing economies : evidence from a new dataset
Henn, Christian; Papageorgiou, Chris; Spatafora, Nikolas - 2015 - Manuscript date: February 2015
This paper develops new estimates of export quality, far more extensive than previous efforts, covering 178 countries …
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Special compulsory licences for export of medicines : key features of WTO members' implementing legislation
Kampf, Roger - 2015 - Manuscript date: July 2015
framework. While the survey illustrates that a robust framework supportive of the export of generic medicines to meet public …
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Aid for trade, foreign direct investment and export upgrading in recipient countries
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm; Roberts, Michael - 2015 - Manuscript date: 4 December 2015
affect export upgrading and, if so, whether their effects are complementary or substitutable. Export upgrading entails export … diversification (including overall export diversification, as well as diversification at the intensive and at the extensive margins …) and export quality improvement. The empirical analysis shows that total AfT flows have a strong positive impact on export …
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The impact of disasters on international trade
Gassebner, Martin - 2006
In this paper we examine the impact of major disasters on international trade flows using a gravity model. Our panel data consists of more than 170 countries for the years 1962-2004 yielding approximately 300,000 observations. We find that the driving forces determining the impact of such events...
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Costa Rica : trade opening, FDI attraction and global production sharing
Monge Ariño, Francisco - 2011 - Manuscript date: January 2011
Costa Rica has managed to combine an active agenda in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (MTNs) at the WTO with the negotiation of several Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Such PTAs, most notably those with the US, China and the EU, will boost the share of total exports benefiting from...
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SPS measures and trade : implementation matters
Crivelli, Pramila; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2012 - Manuscript date: 21 February 2012
Using SPS measures obtained from the SPS Information Management System of the WTO and controlling for zero trade flows, we find that SPS concerns reduce the probability of trade in agricultural and food products consistently. However, the amount of trade is positively affected by SPS measures...
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Clustering value-added trade : structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014 - Manuscript date: 2 June 2014
exporting higher share of domestic content, except in services exports; but in this case, export volumes remain marginal. …
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Revisiting growth accounting from a trade in value-added perspective
Escaith, Hubert - 2016 - Manuscript date: 24 February 2016
Global Manufacturing and International Supply Chains changed the way trade and international economics are understood today. The present essay builds on recent statistical advances to suggest new ways of looking at the demand and supply side approaches when Global Value Chains (GVCs) -...
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The layers of the IT Agreement's trade impact
Henn, Christian; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - 2015 - Manuscript date: February 2015
out with especially strong post-accession export increases, also extending to intermediate goods. …
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Market shares in the post-Uruguay round era : a closer look using shift-share analysis
Piezas-Jerbi, Ninez; Nee, Coleman - 2009
Shift-Share Analysis aims to break down total change of economic indicators into various components to identify underlying sources of growth or decline. A key feature is that the unit of analysis (e.g. a city, a region or a country) exists within a broader frame of reference that strongly...
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