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This paper develops new estimates of export quality, far more extensive than previous efforts, covering 178 countries …
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framework. While the survey illustrates that a robust framework supportive of the export of generic medicines to meet public …
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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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This paper addresses the issue of export licensing procedures in the WTO context. It aims to contribute to the … understanding of the existing rules applicable to export licensing in the WTO, and what the development of specific disciplines … would mean to international trade. The paper looks at the definition of export licensing, the past discussions on developing …
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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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This paper is the first in the literature to examine the impact of natural disasters on trade in services. We measure the magnitude of natural disasters using two distinct sets of variables and quantify the effect of natural disasters on trade in services using a structural gravity model. We...
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We capitalize on the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature to revisit the question of whether and how much does GATT/WTO membership affect international trade. We are the first to capture the non-discriminatory nature of GATT/WTO commitments by measuring the effects...
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Besides facilitating access to the world market, WTO accession negotiations entail a process of domestic reforms that are expected to improve the supply side of acceding economies. However, measuring the actual impact of accession remains an empirical debate. The present paper contributes to the...
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exported by destination and with the number of export destinations served by product. To address the issue of causality, we …
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We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on 'new measures', we find evidence of a substitution of...
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