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The European Union's service directive: Contrasting ex ante estimates with empirical evidence
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
on a sample of EU- and non-EU countries in the period 2004 to 2010. We account for non-tariff trade barriers and the … European value-added-chain and promote business service exports from third countries towards the EU. The reorientation of the … new members is in turn associated with declining intra-EU10 business intensities while leaving business trade among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291830
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Business services outsourcing and economic growth: Evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth … long-run growth effect for countries taking part in the outsourcing process of producer services exists. The growth effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291838
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Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm Level Evidence
Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; Orefice, Gianluca; … - 2013
We address the trade effect of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade, by matching a detailed panel of French firm exports with a new database compiling the list of Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary regulatory measures that have been raised as a concern in dedicated committees of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292695
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Product standards and margins of trade: Firm level evidence
Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - 2013
This paper analyses the trade effects of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade for a large panel of French firms. To focus on restrictive product standards only, we use a new database compiling the list of measures that have been raised as concerns in dedicated committees of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326811
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Non-tariff barriers, market access, and trade
Mathä, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the effects of non-tariff barriers, in terms of both variable and fixed export costs, on trade structure. The relationship between fixed and variable trade costs determines whether international trade emerges. If trade emerges, only variable, but not fixed export costs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281294
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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474977
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National Standards and International Trade
Ganslandt, Mattias; Markusen, James R. - 2001
Standards and technical regulations which govern the admissibility of imported goods into an economy raise costs of exporters entering new markets, and may have a particularly high impact on firms seeking to export from developing countries. Yet standards may also have a positive side, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334822
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Outsourcing and trade in a spatial world
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2004
This paper provides an analysis of outsourcing and trade in a spatial model – la Hotelling. In this setting, we discuss … the trade-off between transport-cost-related disadvantages and outsourcing-induced production cost advantages of a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261096
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Market Concentration and International Outsourcing
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001
This paper shows that market concentration is positively related to outsourcing activities in a framework of Cournot … competition with strategic outsourcing in a first stage. The theoretical priors are confirmed by rank correlation coefficients … between the intermediate goods import intensity and market concentration in the EU12 countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435086
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346