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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System
Ederington, Josh - 2016
With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …
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Conceptual aspects of global value chains : World Development Report 2020 background paper
Antràs, Pol - 2020
The paper offers an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). It outlines a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and it traces the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228282
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The voice of foreign direct investment : foreign investor policy preferences and experiences in developing countries
Saurav, Abhishek; Kuo, Ryan - 2020
This paper provides insights to inform government efforts to attract and retain foreign direct investment, by analyzing the results of a survey of more than 2,400 affiliates of multinational enterprises across 10 middle-income countries. The paper explores corporate perspectives and...
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Global recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan; Sugawara, Naotaka; Terrones, Marco E. - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230745
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An empirical investigation of trade diversion and global value chains : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Soyres, François de; Maire, Julien; Sublet, Guillaume - 2019
Rules of Origin as an implicit trade barrier for imports from the rest of the world. Global Value Chains are most relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168114
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Inflation dynamics and global value chains : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Soyres, François de; Franco, Sebastián - 2019
The global economy has witnessed a decline in inflation and an increase in inflation synchronization since the early 1980s. This paper investigates the relationship between inflation synchronization and trade integration, and documents the strong link between inflation co-movement and Global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168117
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Trade, global value chains and GDP comovemement : an empirical investigation : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Soyres, François de; Gaillard, Alexandre - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement - also called the trade comovement slope- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral trade,...
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Have robots grounded the flying geese? : evidence from greenfield FDI in manufacturing
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Nayyar, Gaurav - 2019
For decades, manufacturers around the world have outsourced production to countries with lower labor costs. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168129
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Swept by the tide? : the international comovement of capital flows
Lafuerza, Luis F.; Servén, Luis - 2019
This paper assesses the international comovement of gross capital flows in a setting simultaneously encompassing aggregate inflows and outflows. It uses as empirical framework a multilevel latent factor model, implemented on flow data for a large sample of countries over more than three decades....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008280
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Measuring what matters in global value chains and value-added trade : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Borin, Alessandro; Mancini, Michele - 2019
The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...
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