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Networks, Firms, and Trade
Bastos, Paulo - 2017
Fixed costs associated with learning about demand and setting up distribution networks are expected to be lower when there are more potential contacts in the destination market, suggesting a greater probability of market entry and larger export revenues. The authors match historically-determined...
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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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Evaluating Aid for Trade : A Survey of Recent Studies
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
reducing trade costs through investments in hard infrastructure (like ports and roads) and soft infrastructure (like customs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973616
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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 … bilateral country pairs do not actually trade. The authors depart from the institutions and infrastructure literature in this … components (to condense the institutional and infrastructure measures) with a focus on deviations in the resulting indexes from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747825
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976666
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Watching More than the Discovery Channel : Export Cycles and Diversification in Development
Brenton, Paul - 2016
This paper examines the export performance of 99 countries over 1995-2004 to understand the relative roles of export growth through discovery of new products and growth during post-discovery phases of the export product cycle - acceleration and maturation - in existing markets and expansion into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747663
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Trade Facilitation in Services : Concepts and Empirical Importance
Gillson, Ian - 2020
This paper examines the concept of trade facilitation in services from the perspective of the recent literature on the determinants of services trade. The aim is to conceptualize trade facilitation in this area as a dimension of international integration beyond the baseline restrictiveness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834704
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Trade Facilitation and Country Size
Amin, Mohammad - 2017
It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973796
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Do Migrants Really Foster Trade? The Trade-Migration Nexus, a Panel Approach 1960-2000
Parsons, Christopher Robert - 2017
-examines the trade-migration nexus using a panel spanning several decades, which comprises the majority of world trade and … ties, are on average strongly and positively correlated with migrant networks. Dividing the world into the relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975302
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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions : Paving the Way
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975644