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This paper investigates the process of trade integration between the enlarged European Union and the Newly Independent States (NIS), focusing on the new EU member states (NMS) and selected NIS (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan). The paper analyses the evolution of the regional...
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We analyze industrial specialization and geographic concentration patterns within the NAFTA area during 1988-2000 and examine the determinant of spatial concentration. NAFTA countries have become increasingly dissimilar over time. A changing spatial structure of total NAFTA manufacturing is also...
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This paper examines the factors affecting bilateral Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) stocks from 14 high income countries to 31 OECD countries over the period 1995-2015. We specifically emphasise the effect of regional trade agreements such as the European Union (EU) and the North American Free...
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American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), trade integration outweighed trade diversion; for MERCOSUR, increased integration and …
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This paper models the trade creating and trade diverting effects of the COMESA free trade agreement (FTA) and MERCOSUR … implementations, intra-COMESA FTA trade and intra-MERCOSUR trade are shown to have grown to 171% and 116% above their gravity equation … predicted levels. There is some evidence that MERCOSUR diverted modest levels of trade from non-members but there is no evidence …
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We offer a comprehensive general equilibrium analysis of the EU-Mercosur agreement considering tariffs, quotas, non …
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In this paper we compute price/quality gap indicators to measure vertical intra-iundustry trade (VIIT) in EU markets at 3-digit NACE industry level. These indicators are then used to test some hypotheses relative to the determinants of the quality of trade of Central and Eastern European...
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The paper studies the impact of migration policy liberalisation on international labour migration in the enlarged EU in a structural NEG approach. The liberalisation of migration policy would induce additional 1.80 - 2.98 percent of the total EU workforce to change their country of location,...
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This study explores economic interdependence in Mercosur by examining common trends and common cycles among key macro … macroeconomic interdependence in the Mercosur economies is strong. The exchange rates demonstrate co-movement in the long run as … correlations. Our overall findings thus provide justification and optimism for deeper economic integration among Mercosur countries. …
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último, se formulan algunos comentarios sobreel MERCOSUR, destacando el potencial que el país tendría en dicho bloque … into account the effects inthe Colombian economic process.At the end, Mercosur comments are mentioned highlighting the …
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