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This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et...
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The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China …. Still, China's integration process so far remains characterized by a certain duality. On the one hand the opening up of …
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China has virtually dominated the trade scene in nearly all manufacturing sectors, this study also looks at the tripartite … dynamics of trade in pharmaceutical items among India, Pakistan and China. An analysis of the China-Pakistan and the South Asia … Free Trade Area Agreements reveals that while Pakistan does not give any favourable treatment to China in items on Pakistan …
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import protection. This includes the relatively standard approach of examining the pattern of tariffs in a Grossman …We examine the political economy underpinnings of import protection in general equilibrium. Starting from a dual … equilibrium-based estimates of the welfare effects and rents generated by tariffs. We therefore follow the development of our …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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This paper investigates whether firms' exports of different products within a market are systematically interconnected. Using high-quality Swedish firm-registry data from 1997-2011, I first document that the distribution of firm export sales is skewed towards their best performing products...
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