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This paper empirically investigates the effect of the EU-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) on manufacturing trade flows. By applying a state-of-the-art structural gravity model with intranational (i.e., domestic) trade and using disaggregated data, we quantify both the trade impact and the...
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We revisit the effects of globalisation over the past 50 years in a large sample of advanced and emerging countries. We use accessions to \Globalisation Clubs" (WTO, OECD, EU), financial liberalisation and an instrument for trade openness to study the trade-off between efficiency (proxied by...
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increased over time. Our results suggest that a 10% increase in geopolitical distance, like the observed increase in the US-China …
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The purpose of this paper is to explain the relation between the Border Effect and industrial concentration. This is achieved by founding this relation on the Home Market Effect and testing the robustness of this foundation through an application to the European Single Market. A sectorial...
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This paper assesses the Euro's influence upon European trade by estimating two different indicators. The first is the so-called "Rose Effect", while the second is the "Border Effect". The former measures how much a country within a currency union trades more with its partners than with...
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The European Single Market created a common market for millions of Europeans. However, thirty years after its introduction, it appears that the benefits of the common European project are occasionally being questioned at least by some parts of the population. Others, by contrast, strive for...
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International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of global value chains (GVCs). This paper studies how two factors contributed to this rise since 1970: (i) declining "border effects" that are arguably related to the ICT revolution...
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consequence of tariff shocks. We exploit sudden policy changes in the context of the trade dispute between the US and China. Based … showing a strong negative direct effect of US tariffs on US imports from China, but (2) do not find evidence for significant …
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There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the … values reflect quality the prevailing view of the literature is that China exports low quality varieties of the same products …
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