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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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Origin as an implicit trade barrier for imports from the rest of the world. Global Value Chains are most relevant to …
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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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, but the impact varies by income group. Provisions outside the current mandate of the World Trade Organization (investment … under the current World Trade Organization mandate (tariff reduction and customs facilitation) drive the effect of trade …
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countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …
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This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage...
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oilseed prices compared with a fuel tax exemption. Jumps in world crude oil prices have differential impacts on commodity …
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, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …
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world differently. Using a combination of static and dynamic panel data analysis, we find that while increases in trade per …
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The Special Safeguard Mechanism was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the World Trade … uses a stochastic simulation model of the world wheat market to investigate the effects of policy makers implementing … percent in some regions, with world wheat trade falling by 4.7 percent. The price measures discriminate against low price …
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