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Trade Costs in the Developing World : 1995 - 2010

Arvis, Jean-François - 2017

income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs is largely unfavorable to the developing world: trade costs are falling …

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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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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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Trading on Time

Djankov, Simeon; Freund, Caroline L.; Pham, Cong S. - 2006

We determine how time delays affect international trade, using newly-collected World Bank data on the days it takes to …

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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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Dark Costs, Missing Data : Shedding Some Light on Services Trade

Anderson, James E. - 2018

A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries, and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to infer border barriers flexibly are often missing for services, this paper derives a novel methodology for projecting output data. The...

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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2017

The authors develop a framework for studying trade in horizontally and vertically differentiated products. In their model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good and make a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution...

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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows

Kugler, Maurice - 2017

Migration facilitates the flow of information between countries, thereby reducing informational frictions that potentially hamper cross-country financial flows. Using a gravity model, migration is found to be highly correlated with financial flows from the migrant's host country to her home...

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The Impacts of Trade Facilitation Measures on International Trade Flows

Sá Porto, Paulo Costacurta de - 2017

This paper analyzes the impacts of selected trade facilitation measures on international trade flows. A gravity model is used to estimate four equations: a pooled cross-section model; a fixed-effects model; a random effects model; and a Poisson maximum likelihood estimator. The contribution of...

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Distance and Regionalization of Trade for Low-Income Countries

Carrere, Celine - 2017

sample -- i.e., the low-income countries according to the World Bank classification, 2006). The analysis shows that this … could well be a reflection of increased integration of this group of countries in the world economy or greater …

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