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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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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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Sugar Prices, Labour Income and Poverty in Brazil

Krivonos, Ekaterina - 2006

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local markets may be relatively more isolated from changes in world … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …

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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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Are All Trade Agreements Equal? The Role of Distance in Shaping the Effect of Economic Integration Agreements on Trade Flows

Freeman, Rebecca - 2017

How does geographic distance affect the impact of trade agreements on bilateral exports, and through what channels? This paper examines this questions in a gravity model context for different types of goods for 185 countries over the period 1965-2010. Three stylized facts emerge. First, although...

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Institutions, Infrastructure, and Trade

Francois, Joseph F. - 2016

The authors examine the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. They are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. The...

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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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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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Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility

Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - 2017

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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Measuring What Matters in Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade

Borin, Alessandro - 2019

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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