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Regionalism and Trade Facilitation : A Primer
Maur, Jean-Christophe - 2008
This paper investigates when trade facilitation reform should be undertaken at the regional level. First, looking at both efficiency and implementation considerations, it confirms the perception that the regional dimension matters. Investigating where efficiency gains can be made, this research...
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Trains, Trade and Transaction Costs : How Does Domestic Trade by Rail Affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities?
Zant, Wouter - 2017
This paper measures the impact of low-cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodities prices across markets by exploiting the quasi-experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic transport by rail in January 2003 due to the destruction of a railway...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951507
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Do Individual Investors Ignore Transaction Costs?
Anginer, Deniz - 2017
related to transaction costs also earn higher gross returns on their investments before accounting for transaction costs …
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Contractual Frictions and the Margins of Trade
Azomahou, Theophile T. - 2018
A growing body of work has shown that the quality of national institutions that enforce written contracts plays an … margin than the extensive margin of exporting. In addition, better contracting institutions increase the probability of … developing countries that seek to boost export growth but many of which suffer from poor contracting institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908606
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Dark Costs, Missing Data : Shedding Some Light on Services Trade
Anderson, James E. - 2018
derives a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical implementation sheds light on the role of institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936812
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Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions in Services : The Role of Policy and Industrial Structure
Barattieri, Alessandro - 2017
This paper presents evidence on the determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in services sectors. It develops a stylized model of mergers and acquisitions that predicts that the incidence of merger and acquisition deals depends, inter alia, on the target economy's size, industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973145
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Why Liquidity Matters to the Export Decision of the Firm
Chan, Rosanna C. - 2017
Under financial constraints, exporting may have less to do with productivity and more to do with financial resources. The established relationship between exporting and productivity would differ when examined through the lens of the working capital needs of the firm. The hypothesis that working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973315
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Transaction Costs of Low-Carbon Technologies and Policies : The Diverging Literature
Mundaca, Luis - 2017
Transaction costs are major challenge to moving forward toward low-carbon economic growth, as new technologies or policies tend to have higher transaction costs compared with those in the business as usual situation. However, neither a well-developed theoretical foundation nor a consensus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974104
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How is the Liberalization of Food Markets Progressing? Market Integration and Transaction Costs in Subsistence Economies
Zant, Wouter - 2017
The paper proposes a modification of Baulch's parity bounds model to measure the market integration of food markets in developing countries. Instead of extrapolating a single observation of transaction costs, it estimates transaction costs. Predicted transaction costs compare well with survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974673
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Trade Costs in the Developing World : 1995 - 2010
Arvis, Jean-François - 2017
The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period. The data show that trade costs are strongly declining in per capita income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs...
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