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India during the period 1980-2008. Drawing from the recent literature, a comprehensive measure of trade costs is derived … costs accounted for less than one third of the increase in trade between the PRC and India during the 1980s, lower costs …
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We propose a normative assessment of the value of international trade that is rooted in production theory and embeds Ricardo's 1817 formulation of the gains from trade into a multi-factor general equilibrium framework. Without imposing strong assumptions on consumer rationality or data from the...
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In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We seek to reconcile this ostensible paradox. Because of the sharp decline in both fixed and variable trade costs, the trade boom was as much about the expansion in the number of...
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In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We seek to reconcile this ostensible paradox. Because of the sharp decline in both fixed and variable trade costs, the trade boom was as much about the expansion in the number of...
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Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we …
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Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years … sequence, is there a case for monetary union in East Asia? Is there a case for expanded free-trade areas (FTAs) in the region … Equilibrium (CGE) model, to evaluate the economics of monetary/financial integration and various configurations of FTAs in Asia …
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