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Welfare and Fiscal Implications from Increased Gasoline Prices in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Atamanov, Aziz - 2020

Facing a fiscal crisis, the Islamic Republic of Iran decided to increase gasoline prices at the end of 2019. This paper … Expenditure and Income Survey conducted by the Statistical Center of Iran in March 2018-March 2019. The paper looks at the direct …

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Constructing Robust Poverty Trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran : 2008-14

Atamanov, Aziz - 2017

This paper constructs and tests the robustness of consistently measured poverty trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran … estimates reveal three distinct periods of welfare in the Islamic Republic of Iran: increase in poverty and inequality between …

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Lifting Economic Sanctions on Iran : Global Effects and Strategic Responses

Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017

Iran with and without strategic responses. Iran benefits the most, with average per capita welfare gains ranging from close … to 3 percent, in the case when Iran's crude oil exports to the European Union recover to half their pre-embargo level, to … that enable a strong supply response, and increased market access for Iranian exports in developed markets. Iran could …

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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets

Espitia, Alvaro - 2020

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...

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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César - 2020

This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it jointly estimates the impact of different dimensions of trade integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade...

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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 important role in shaping a country's comparative advantage. Using highly disaggregated bilateral and unique harmonized firm-level trade data across a large number of countries,...

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The Intensive Margin in Trade

Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018

Is the variation in bilateral trade flows across countries primarily due to differences in the number of exporting firms (the extensive margin) or in the average size of an exporter (the intensive margin)? And how does this affect the estimation and quantitative implications of the Melitz (2003)...

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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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Robots, Tasks and Trade

Artuc, Erhan - 2019

This paper examines the effects of robotization on trade patterns, wages and welfare. It develops a Ricardian model with two-stage production and trade in intermediate and final goods in which robots can take over some tasks previously performed by humans in a subset of industries. An increase...

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The Global Trade Slowdown : Cyclical or Structural?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses an empirical strategy based on an error correction model to assess whether the global trade slowdown is structural or cyclical. An estimate of the relationship between trade and...

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