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This paper argues that the empirical trade-growth relationship should be modelled using a dynamic panel data approach … than previous results. They confirm the existence of a strong causal effect of trade on growth but fail to find evidence … for trade as an independent factor of divergence. Hence, one cannot blame trade as such for the disappointing performance …
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We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure …, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested … in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. We depart from …
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While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
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international trade. We outline a model exemplifying some of these linkages, describe several methods for investigating two …-way feedbacks between various categories of trade, and apply them to the recent experience of developing countries. After … between FDI and manufacturing trade. More precisely, applying Geweke (1982)'s decomposition method, we find that most of the …
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, regulation of trade and investment flows, and gender-sensitive public sector spending. …
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This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector. Economic factors can be summarized by the infant industry argument and we expect industries which are relatively efficient compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels...
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negatively by trade, while the Gini statistic is fueled by the falling labour share and increasing financial payments. Using …
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for adverse effects of regulatory heterogeneity on intra-EU trade in the pre-harmonization period, which questions the …
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of trade flows in environmental goods (EG) on total CO2 and SO2 emissions. Our system-GMM estimations reveal positive … recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in …-induced effects. We show that the direct, indirect and total effects of trade in EGs depend on the country’s net trade status, the EGs …
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macroeconomic and trade policies to promote gender equity. The evidence suggests that while liberalization has expanded women …
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