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Endogenous Protection in General Equilibrium: estimating political weights in the EU
Francois, Joseph Francis; Nelson, Douglas; … - 2008
We examine the political economy underpinnings of import protection in general equilibrium. Starting from a dual theoretical representation of production, trade, and consumption, we map a general representation of the real economy to underlying political processes aka the political support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294853
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Export costs and geographic diversification: Does experience matter?
Castagnino, Tomás - 2010
What drives firms' geographic diversification in international markets? I build a model to show that if some export costs are sunk and shared between alike destinations, the decision of a firm to enter a market is a function of its experience in a similar one. Using a rich firm-level dataset for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325082
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Trade effects of standards harmonization in the EU: Improved access for non-EU partners
Shingal, Anirudh; Ehrich, Malte - 2019
In September 2008, the EU replaced national-level regulation on Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) in pesticides with harmonized Community-wide regulation. Using data on pesticide MRLs for 53 trading partners over 2005-2014, we examine the effects of this harmonization on both intra- and extra-EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099543
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Trade in Environmental Goods: Empirical Exploration of Direct and Indirect Effects on Pollution by Country’s Trade Status
Zugravu-Soilita, Natalia - 2017
Based on panel data covering 114 countries in the world, this study investigates the direct, indirect and total effects of trade flows in environmental goods (EG) on total CO2 and SO2 emissions. Our system-GMM estimations reveal positive direct scale – [between-industry] composition effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816759
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Bridging Trade Barriers: Evaluating Models of Multi-Product Exporters
Arnarson, Björn Thor - 2016
In this paper I investigate the impact of a decrease in trade costs on firms' decisions to export. The main contribution of this paper is to evaluate empirically the theoretical predictions of several models of multi-product exporters. The focus is on the firm export entry decision and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208715
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Why Trading with Dictators May Nevertheless Help the People: On the Interplay between Trade, Political Regimes and Economic Institutions
Khalid, Usman - 2015
Recent empirical studies confirm a positive relationship between trade liberalization or trade openness and the quality of domestic economic institutions. An isolated analysis of trade openness per se, however, may grossly simplify the mechanisms at work, as the linkage between open trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208724
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The Superstar and the Followers: Intra-Firm Product Complementarity in International Trade
Arnarson, Björn Thor - 2017
This paper investigates whether firms' exports of different products within a market are systematically interconnected … if the 'superstar' products induce more trade of non-superstar products. I find evidence that the exports of low …-ranked (non-star) products of a firm are contingent on the exports of a single superstar product to each destination. Extending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208768
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What Goes Around Comes Around: The Effects of Sanctions on Swedish Firms in the Wake of the Ukraine Crisis
Gullstrand, Joakim - 2018
in a 65% drop in sales of banned products in the Russian market, while the sender effect on exports outside Russia was … the domestic market was on average intact while exports to markets facing the same type of sanctions fell. The most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208828
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What drives trade in services? Lessons from the Nordics
Kyvik Nordås, Hildegunn - 2017
The contribution of this paper to the literature is to make an empirical assessment of the relative importance of non-actionable institutional and cultural factors and actionable policy measures for services market integration, using the Nordic countries as a case study. It finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654421
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The WTO Reference Paper meets EU common regulatory policy in CETA
Kyvik Nordås, Hildegunn - 2020
International trade and investment in telecommunications are governed by the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and its Annex and Reference Paper (RP) on telecommunications. This paper discusses whether the 25-year old WTO framework is still fit for...
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