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India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms' Decision to Export
Srinivasan, T. N.; Archana, Vani - 2009
) with its trading partners around the world and to examine the impact of various PTAs in which India or its trading partner … the world relatively few firms participate in world trade, thus suggesting that characteristics of a firm (such as its … size and productivity) are relevant besides country level barriers on trade matter for participation in world trade. This …
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The euro’s trade effects
Baldwin, Richard E. - 2006
This paper reviews reassesses the methodology and principal findings of the “Rose effect”, i.e. the trade effects of currency union, looking at both EMU and non-EMU currency unions. The consensus estimate suggests that the euro has already boosted intra-euro area trade by five to ten...
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The Trade-Off between Foreign Direct Investments and Exports: The Role of Multiple Dimensions of Distance
Lankhuizen, Maureen; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Linders, … - 2009
To serve foreign markets, firms can either export or set up a local subsidiary through horizontal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between countries is large, while exports become more important...
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Multilateralism versus Regionalism!?
Herz, Bernhard; Wagner, Marco - 2010
in recent years. Based on an extensive data set which covers most of world trade over the past 60 years and about 240 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294692
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The determinants of cross-border bank flows to emerging markets: New empirical evidence on the spread of financial crises
Herrmann, Sabine; Mihaljek, Dubravko - 2010
This paper studies the nature of spillover effects in bank lending flows from advanced to the emerging market economies and identifies specific channels through which such effects occur. Based on a gravity model we examine a panel data set on cross-border bank flows from 17 advanced to 28...
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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004
World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …
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International service transactions: Is time a trade barrier in a connected world?
Dettmer, Bianka - 2010
The firms' international fragmentation of production has recently widened its focus from outsourcing of intermediates to off-shoring of business services such as software program development and international call centre networks. Although a large number of business services are intangible and...
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Market Size and Factor Endowment: Explaining Comparative Advantage in Bilateral Trade by Differences in Income and Per Capita Income
Schumacher, Dieter - 2001
Using a gravity-type explanation of international trade flows at the industry level, it is shown that the pattern of comparative advantage in terms of sectoral export/import ratios in bilateral trade can be explained by relative income and relative per capita income. Total income of a country is...
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Trade costs, trade balances and current accounts : an application of gravity to multilateral trade
Fazio, Giorgio; MacDonald, Ronald; Melitz, Jacques - 2005
In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...
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Export Diversification, Externalities and Growth
Herzer, Dierk; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2004
in world markets. The diversification-led growth hypothesis is tested by estimating an augmented Cobb-Douglas production …'s dramatic changes in economic policy, time series techniques considering structural breaks are applied. The estimation results …
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