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Market Shares in the Wake of the Global Crisis : The Quarterly Export Competitiveness Database
Gaulier, Guillaume - 2014
Over the past two decades, international trade has become a privileged engine of growth for much of the developing world. In the wake of the global crisis, countries must pay close attention to their positioning on the global map of trade and production and become aware of how they fare relative...
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Quality and the great trade collapse
Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2015
We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...
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Dissecting Thailand’s International Trade : Evidence from 88 Million Export and Import Entries
Apaitan, Tosapol - 2019
This paper uses transaction-level data from Thailand to study concentration, specialization, and fragility of export activities. The paper shows that although exports have been an integral part of the development strategy of the country for several decades, direct engagement in international...
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R&D intensive goods trade and competitiveness of Turkey in the European Union market
Seymen, Dilek; Gümüştekin, Başak - 2012
This paper aims to measure trade competitiveness of Research and Development (R&D) intensive goods of Turkey in the … Ratios (Seymen, 2009) are calculated to analyze the technology composition of manufacturing goods trade between Turkey and … two parties. Thus, once the general situation related to the R&D intensive goods trade between Turkey and the EU is …
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Impact of Chinese Renminbi on Korean Exports : Does Quality Matter?
Eum, Jihyun - 2019
This paper examines the impact of changes in the Chinese exchange rate on Korean exports taking into consideration the characteristics of the exported products. In this paper, we consider the degree of vertical product differentiation to be one of the causes that ease the negative spillover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862286
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The relationship between product complexity and exchange rate elasticities : evidence from the people’s republic of China's manufacturing industries
Thorbecke, Willem; Chen, Chen; Salike, Nimesh - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 189-212
More complex products are less substitutable in international trade and may therefore have lower price elasticities. We investigate this issue using 960 types of manufactured exports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to 190 partner economies disaggregated at the Harmonized System...
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Kenya Export Prospects and Problems
Ng, Francis - 2008
Although Kenya was once viewed as being among the African countries with the most favorable growth prospects, the last two decades witnessed significant declines in many measures of economic performance and social standards. As a result, Kenya's share of world trade is now less than one-half its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770844
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Unpicking Portugal's export performance : a microdata analysis
Adamczyk, Paula; Westmore, Ben - 2020
Portugal has notably increased its international openness over recent decades, with exports’ share of GDP rising by 20 percentage points since 1993. This analysis couples microdata with panel regression techniques to investigate the drivers of Portuguese export growth over the 1995-2016...
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The impact of COVID-19 on EU‑China trade flows
Mrozowska, Dominika Choroś - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 4, pp. 161-178
COVID-19 is expected to have contributed towards changing the geographical structure of world trade, including trade between individual EU countries and China. This article presents the results of an analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Sino‑EU trade flows. The research aims to...
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Export Trade in Nigeria : An Empirical Investigation
Aliyu, Shehu Usman Rano - 2009
The paper seeks to quantitatively assess the impact of exchange rate volatility on non oil export flows in Nigeria. Theoretically, volatility-trade link is ambiguous, although a strand of studies reported inverse link between export flow and volatility. The paper employed fundamental analysis...
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