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Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for Germany suggests an average return of between US$ 1.04 to US$ 1.50 for each US dollar of aid spent by Germany. Although this is well below previous estimates, the value is robust to...

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Does Aid translate into Bilateral Trade? Findings for Recipient Countries

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between foreign aid and exports in recipient … bilateral trade relations. Our empirical findings -all based on endogeneity-proof techniques (such as Dynamic OLS or more … refined techniques) - depend very strongly on whether bilateral trade relations and autocorrelation of the disturbances are …

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Is aid for trade effective? A quantile regression approach

Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; … - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2014

This paper investigates whether Aid for Trade (AfT) improves export performance, i.e. does AfT lead to greater exports … found to affect exports at the upper tail of the distribution. In contrast, aid for trade policy and aid disbursed for …

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Export Diversification, Externalities and Growth

Herzer, Dierk; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2004

It is frequently suggested that export diversification contributes to an acceleration of growth in developing countries. Horizontal export diversification into completely new export sectors may generate positive externalities on the rest of the economy as export oriented sectors gain from...

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Are exports and imports of Chile cointegrated?

Herzer, Dierk; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2005

This study examines the long-run relationship between Chilean exports and imports during the 1975-2004 period using unit root tests and cointegration techniques that allow for endogenously determined structural breaks. The results indicate that there exists a long-run equilibrium between exports...

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Does German development aid promote German exports?

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2008

This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and … oscillates over time. Interestingly, in the period from 2001 to 2005, a steady increase in the effect of aid on trade can be …

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EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements - Empirical Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa

Vollmer, Sebastian; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2009

Since early 2008 interim trade agreements between the EU and six regions of ACP countries (respectively sub … disaggregated data for trade and tariffs (HS six digit level) and follows a simple analytical model by Milner et al. (2006) to … quantify the welfare effects of trade liberalization. We extend the literature in two principal ways: First, we estimate …

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The Economic Benefits of giving Aid in terms of Donors Exports

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2010

This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between bilateral and multilateral foreign aid and …-recipient trade relationship. This paper also makes comparisons among donors and finds that aid has a positive and significant effect …

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Foreign aid and recipient countries' exports: How important are improved bilateral trade relations?

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010

This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between foreign aid and exports in recipient …

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Foreign Aid and Recipient Countries' Exports: Does Aid Promote Bilateral Trade?

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010

This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between foreign aid and exports in recipient … exchange rate appreciation, disregarding possible positive effects of aid in promoting bilateral trade relations. The empirical … dollar spent. We argue that 'bilateral aid' seems to promote good bilateral trade relations, mutual trust and familiarity and …

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