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North-South trade agreements and the quality of institutions : panel data evidence
Schneider, Sophie Therese - 2018
institutional quality from developed to developing countries. First, a PTA may affect institutions because it can serve as a network … for political exchange and second, the regulations and commitments stipulated in it may affect local institutions in the … South. I empirically investigate if there are positive effects of being a member in a PTA on the quality of institutions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956930
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Bilateral trade agreements and trade distortions in agricultural markets
Hirsch, Cornelius; Oberhofer, Harald - 2017
Agricultural support levels are at a crossroad with reduced distortions in OECD countries and increasing support for agricultural producers in emerging economies over the last decades. This paper studies the determinants of distortions in the agricultural markets by putting a specific focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603276
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Bilateral trade agreements and trade distortions in agricultural markets?
Hirsch, Cornelius; Oberhofer, Harald - 2017
Agricultural support levels are at a crossroad with reduced distortions in OECD countries and increasing support for agricultural producers in emerging economies over the last decades. This paper studies the determinants of distortions in the agricultural markets by putting a specific focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610506
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New Panel Data Evidence on Sub-Saharan Trade Integration : Prospects for the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite
Riedel, Jana - 2018
The COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite FTA, formed in 2011, is supposed to be a milestone towards Africa's continental trade integration. This study analyzes the impact of regional integration among the Tripartite countries on their bilateral imports before that date to evaluate the latest integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911455
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Fiscal transfers and fiscal sustainability
Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus - 2014
We examine whether US and German state governments pursue sustainable fiscal policies taking into account fiscal transfers. Using panel data techniques we investigate whether the debt-to-GDP ratio had a positive influence on the primary surplus (Bohn-model). We show that including/excluding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260027
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Trade integration in West Africa : does the quality of institutions matter?
Gammadigbe, Vigninou - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 8 (2021) 1, pp. 65-81
institutional quality matters. The quality of institutions in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) countries … influences bilateral trade. Political stability is an essential component of the quality of the institutions that determine trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805544
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Do developing countries benefit from foreign direct investments?
Razzak, Weshah A.; Bentour, El Mostafa - 2012
institutions and to attract FDIs. …
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Public spending, income inequality and economic growth in Asian countries : a panel GMM approach
Gnangoin, Yobouet Thierry Bienvenu; Du, Liangsheng; … - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/115, pp. 1-15
This paper offers an empirical examination of the relationship between government spending’s, income inequality, and economic growth by using the case of 19 Asian countries from 2002 to 2017. For this purpose, the paper uses robust difference-GMM estimation and panel granger causality test. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132204
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Threshold regression with endogeneity for short panels
Gørgens, Tue; Würtz, Allan H. - In: Econometrics : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/23, pp. 1-8
This paper considers the estimation of dynamic threshold regression models with fixed effects using short panel data. We examine a two-step method, where the threshold parameter is estimated nonparametrically at the N-rate and the remaining parameters are estimated by GMM at the √N-rate. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025781
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Robust linear static panel data models using ε-contamination
Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Chaturvedi, Anoop; … - 2014
The paper develops a general Bayesian framework for robust linear static panel data models using ε-contamination. A two-step approach is employed to derive the conditional type-II maximum likelihood (ML-II) posterior distribution of the coefficients and individual effects. The ML-II posterior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440546