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Bown, Chad P. - 2017

countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …

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Seeking Shared Prosperity Through Trade

Calì, Massimiliano - 2017

Increasing the trade integration of developing countries can make a vital contribution to boosting shared prosperity, but it also exposes producers and consumers to exogenous shocks that alter relative prices, sometimes positively and sometimes negatively. This paper discusses the short-run...

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Policy Uncertainty, Trade, and Global Value Chains : Some Facts, Many Questions

Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina - 2019

-2018 may have caused a 1 percentage point decline in world trade growth. The paper also finds that the impact of policy …

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Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-Parametric Approach

Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2016

number of years of membership. He then combines a gravity model with kernel estimation techniques to capture the non … a positive impact on their members' intra-trade over the estimation period (1960-99). AFTA seems to be the most … successful among them, with an estimated positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade …

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How Much Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reduce Trade Costs?

de Soyres, Francois - 2018

shipment times and trade costs. For the world, the average reduction in shipment time will range between 1.2 and 2.5 percent …

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Services Globalization in an Age of Insecurity : Rethinking Trade Cooperation

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2018

Decades of services trade negotiations have produced a plethora of rules and commitments but limited real liberalization. One reason is a form of "negotiating tunnel vision," which has led to a focus on reciprocal market opening rather than on creating the regulatory preconditions for...

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Who Wins, Who Loses? Understanding the Spatially Differentiated Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative

Lall, Somik V. - 2019

This paper examines how cities and regions within countries are likely to adjust to trade openness and improved connectivity driven by large transport investments from China's Belt and Road Initiative. The paper presents a quantitative economic geography model alongside spatially detailed...

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Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure

Losos, Elizabeth Claire - 2019

The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure,...

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Trade Effects of the New Silk Road : A Gravity Analysis

Baniya, Suprabha - 2019

This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...

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Recent Perspectives on Trade and Inequality

Harrison, Ann E. - 2017

The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low-income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...

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