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Empirical Evidence on Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theorem : The Case of International Trade Between Croatia and the Rest of the European Union Member States
Bilas, Vlatka - 2015
The goal of this research is to test the Heckscher-Ohlin' theorem of comparative advantages on the sample of the Republic of Croatia and other European Union member countries. Heckscher-Ohlin theorem of comparative advantages can largely explain international trade in cases where the sample of...
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Trade costs, openness and productivity
Lejour, Arjan; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo; Rodriguez, Victor; … - 2009
This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640174
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Productivity and Growth in Europe : Editor’s Introduction
Strauss, Hubert - 2012
I summarize the main results and policy insights from the 2011 EIB Conference on “Productivity and Long-Term Growth … Potential in Europe.” Europe's need for productivity growth has become more pressing against the backdrop of huge government …-long learning should be fostered and more emphasis put on an ICT-literate workforce. Productivity-enhancing resource reallocation …
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Market Power, Productivity and the EU Single Market Program : An Ex-Post Assessment on Italian Firm Level Data
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 2001
factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …-sample of "most sensitive" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the …
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Goods follow bytes : the impact of ICT on EU trade
Mattes, Anselm; Meinen, Philipp; Pavel, Ferdinand - 2012
This paper empirically assesses whether the deployment and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure at the national level affects trade flows within the European Union (EU) and between the EU and its main trading partners. The analysis tests the hypothesis that...
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The great collapse in value added trade
Nagengast, Arne J.; Stehrer, Robert - 2015
This paper studies the great collapse in value added trade using a structural decomposition analysis. We show that changes in vertical specialisation accounted for almost half of the great trade collapse, while the previous literature on gross trade has mainly focused on final expenditure,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419613
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The Impact of Brexit on Asia’s Trade and Financial Markets
Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo - 2019
This research attempts to evaluate the impact of Brexit on the Asian markets. This research divided into two large markets: The international trade markets (exports and imports) and international financial markets (investment and stock markets) respectively. The main objective of this research...
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The nexus between economic growth, financial development, trade openness, and CO2 emissions in European countries
Jamel, Lamia; Maktouf, Samir - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-25
In this paper, we empirically investigate the causal nexus between economic growth (GDP), CO2 emissions (environmental degradation), financial development, and trade openness using the ordinary least squares technique for a yearly panel data of 40 European economies, during the period of study...
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Trade, finance or policies : what drives the cross-border spill-over of business cycles?
Montinari, Letizia; Stracca, Livio - 2017
In this paper we investigate how income growth rates in one country are affected by growth rates in partner countries, testing for the importance of pairwise country links as well as characteristics of the receiving country (trade and financial open- ness, exchange rate regime, fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636280
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Eastern enlargement and EU-labour markets : perceptions, challenges and opportunities
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2001
This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three main channels, along which enlargement may affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii)...
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