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Services Linkages and the Value Added Content of Trade
Francois, Joseph F. - 2017
Services trade constitute roughly one-third of trade on a value added basis, and much of this is concentrated in margin services (transport, logistics) linked to trade in goods. However, producer services are also part of the value added contained in traded goods. This is especially true in high...
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Monitoring Export Vulnerability to Changes in Growth Rates of Major Global Markets
Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017
. Export vulnerability depends first on the overall level of export exposure, measured as the share of exports in gross … gross domestic product using a gravity model of trade. Furthermore, export vulnerability is computed separately for … composition of their export basket. Although the results suggest differences in elasticity estimates across regions as well as …
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Exports and International Logistics
Behar, Alberto - 2017
Do better international logistics reduce trade costs, raising a developing country's exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effect depends on the country's size. The authors apply a gravity model that accounts for firm heterogeneity and multilateral resistance to a comprehensive new...
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Trade Policies, Investment Climate, and Exports Across Countries
Seker, Murat - 2017
study investigates a possible reason that prevents convergence of countries in export performance. It shows that regulatory … quality, customs efficiency, quality of infrastructure, and access to finance among other factors increase export performance … convergence in export volumes with countries that have more liberal trade policies …
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Estimating the Import Content of Argentine Exports
Anos Casero, Paloma - 2017
Despite recent efforts toward collecting evidence of vertical specialization for developed economies, scarce work has been dedicated to developing economies and to Argentina, in particular. The key contribution of this paper is to provide comparable estimates of vertical specialization as...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina's Surprising Export Performance : Back to the Past in a New Veil But Will it Last?
Kaminski, Bartlomiej - 2017
investment inflows and weaknesses in the investment climate, its subsequent export performance has come as a surprise. Industrial … have been one of the levers of export upgrading and expansion. The dominance of joint ventures as a mode of entry of … future sustainability of export performance …
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Small African Economies in a More Uncertain Global Trade Environment : The Potential Impact of Post-Agoa Scenarios for Lesotho
Maliszewska, Maryla - 2019
simulations stress the need to strengthen efforts to support structural transformation leading to diversification of export … environment is likely to offer new opportunities to Lesotho's export industries in the medium term, including through regional …
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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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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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Creating the Reform Resistant Dependent Economy : The Cmea International Trading Relationship
Hiliman, Ayre - 2017
In this report the authors analyze the CMEA trading relationship using the standard concepts of 1) specialization in accord with comparative advantage, and 2) the incentives to resist trade liberalization because of rents accruing to industry specific factors of production (including job...
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