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Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world …

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Disaggregating the Impact of the Internet on International Trade

Osnago, Alberto - 2017

The Internet has transformed the way countries trade by reducing the costs of exporting. This paper quantifies the impact of Internet adoption on international trade. It shows that the Internet has a positive, nuanced, impact on international trade: bilateral exports are more affected when...

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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the Gtap9 Database

Roson, Roberto - 2017

Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...

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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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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

commodities and differentiated products. This methodology is applied to six developing countries, one from each World Bank region …

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There Goes Gravity : How Ebay Reduces Trade Costs

Lendle, Andreas - 2017

This paper compares the impact of distance, a standard proxy for trade costs, on eBay and offline international trade flows. It considers the same set of 62 countries and the same basket of goods for both types of transactions, and finds the effect of distance to be on average 65 percent smaller...

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Trade and Regional Inequality

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2017

world differently. Using a combination of static and dynamic panel data analysis, we find that while increases in trade per …

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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …

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Trade Openness Reduces Growth Volatility When Countries are Well Diversified

Haddad, Mona - 2017

This paper addresses the mechanisms by which trade openness affects growth volatility. Using a diverse set of export diversification indicators, it presents strong evidence pointing to an important role for export diversification in reducing the effect of trade openness on growth volatility. The...

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