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How Do Differing Standards Increase Trade Costs? The Case of Pallets

Raballand, Gaël - 2017

sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs …. We select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too sophisticated, and data … because of the lack of rental and exchange pallet markets. To mitigate the costs of this multiplicity of standards, the World …

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The Role of Standards in Global Value Chains

Kaplinsky, Raphael - 2017

Standards have become an increasingly important dimension in global trade. Without the capacity to meet the growing body of standards, producers may either have difficulty in entering global markets, or be relegated to unprofitable and low-margin niches. This paper overviews the history of...

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Weaponomics : The Global Market for Assault Rifles

Killicoat, Phillip - 2016

This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and journalist accounts to produce a cross-country time-series price index of Kalashnikov assault rifles. A model of the small arms market is developed and empirically estimated to...

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Preferential Trade Agreements and Their Role in World Trade

Medvedev, Denis - 2016

comprehensive database of PTAs in force and a detailed matrix of world trade. He shows that total trade between PTA partners is a … to one-third of global trade in 2000-02, the latter was between one-sixth and one-tenth of world trade. His gravity model …

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Global Income Inequality : What it is and Why it Matters

Milanovic, Branko - 2016

inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …

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Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement : An Empirical Investigation

de Soyres, Francois - 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...

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Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities

Jedwab, Remi Camille - 2019

variety of historical and contemporary sources, it shows that there exists marked variation in the age structure of the world …

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Is 3D Printing a Threat to Global Trade? The Trade Effects You Didn't Hear About

Freund, Caroline - 2019

In the mid-2000s, the production of hearing aids shifted almost entirely to 3D printing. Using difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods, this paper examines the effects of this shift on trade flows. The analysis finds that trade increased roughly 60 percent following the...

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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence

Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020

The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam, rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...

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Global Recessions

Kose, M. Ayhan - 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 …

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