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Domestic value addition and foreign content : an analysis of India's exports from 1995 to 2011
Goldar, Bishwanath; Das, Deb Kusum; Sengupta, Sreerupa; … - 2017
India's merchandise trade has been growing in importance in recent years with increases in share in world exports and … imports (Economic Survey, 2013-14). However with fragmentation of production process across countries, higher exports can no … longer be linked to higher production as imports of intermediate products which are used in exports also increase. Against …
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Climbing up India's manufacturing export ladder : how competitive are intermediate goods?
Das, Deb Kusum; Gupta, Neha - 2019
share for intermediate goods in its total exports has increased from 31.18% in 2011 to 32.52% in 2016. Moreover, India …'s overall share in world merchandise exports has itself increased from 0.6% in 1993 to 0.8% in 2003 to 1.7% in 2016 (WTO, 2017 … usefulness of imported inputs that feed into manufacturing exports, but focus is required for assessing the capacity as …
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Joining the supply chain : a firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
This paper undertakes a comparative, firm-level analysis of joining the supply chain in five Southeast Asian economies to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and conducts firm-level econometric analysis on 5,900 enterprises....
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The impact of import competition from China on firm performance in the Peruvian manufacturing sector
Mercado, Eduardo; Pierola, Martha Denisse; … - 2019
This paper studies the impact that import competition from China had on firms performance in the manufacturing sector in Peru in 2005-2015. Using a firm-level dataset that covers the universe of firms in the formal sector, our results reveal that Peruvian firms reacted to increased competition...
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The Chinese export bundles : patterns, puzzles and possible explanations
Wang, Zhi (contributor); Wei, Shang-jin (contributor) - 2008
China’s exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the … competitive pressure may be increasingly felt outside labor-intensive industries. Using product-level data on exports from … significantly to raising the unit values of China’s exports within a given product category. -- China ; India ; Export …
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The effects of terror on international air passenger transport : an empirical investigation
Mitra, Devashish; Pham, Cong S.; Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2017
This paper presents a theoretical model (adapted from the structural gravity model by Anderson and van Wincoop, 2003) to capture the effects of terrorism on air passenger traffic between nations affected by terrorism. We then use equations derived from this model, in conjunction with alternative...
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Do tariffs generate stagflationary tendencies?
Mohammed, Mikidadu - 2018 - 1st draft: July 2018
Stagflation, a simultaneous increase in inflation and unemployment, is generally thought to result from exogenous oil shocks. In this paper, we investigate another potential source of stagflation focusing on tariffs. Relying on the estimation of structural VAR model with sign restrictions over...
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Comparative advantages in the digital era : a Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek approach
Guarascio, Dario; Stöllinger, Roman - 2022
This paper revisits the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) theorem and investigates its fit for digital tasks and ICT capital, which both represent endowment factors that are expected to shape the digital transformation. We use a theory-consistent methodology for calculating the measured net factor...
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Assessing digital leadership : is the EU losing out to the US?
Guarascio, Dario; Stöllinger, Roman - 2023
Since Leontief's (1953) seminal work on the factor content of trade, the validity of the Heckscher-Ohlinmodel has been judged not only on the basis of formal tests of the theory but also tested against prior expectation. In this vein, this paper uses the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) approach to...
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Why don’t all exporters benefit from free trade agreements? : estimating utilization costs
Ulloa, Alfie; Wagner, Rodrigo - 2012
latterincrease exports and may push up factor prices for the industry. …
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