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Trade Potentials of the TPP : A Gravity Estimation
Moharreri, Amirhossein; Khosravi, Anahita - 2014
This study sought to approximate trade potentials of the TPP Agreement with a special consideration at the level of complementarity. To accomplish the objective, we utilized an augmented gravity model on agriculture and manufacturing sectors, spanning the period 2000-2010. Our results suggested...
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The servicification of manufacturing in Asia : redefining the sources of labor productivity
Mercer-Blackman, Valerie; Ablaza, Christine - 2018
manufacturing in Asia. Our contribution to the emerging literature is twofold. First, we propose a conceptual framework of … servicification. And second, we offer some preliminary evidence of this phenomenon for Asia and measurement proposals to disentangle …
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Time zones matter : the impact of distance and time zones on services trade
Christen, Elisabeth - 2012
Using distance and time zone differences as a measure for coordination costs between service suppliers and consumers, we employ a Hausman-Taylor model for services trade by foreign affiliates. Given the need for proximity in the provision of services, factors like distance place a higher cost...
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Exchange rate volatility and disaggregated manufacturing exports : evidence from an emerging country
Duc Hong Vo; Anh The Vo; Zhang, Zhaoyong - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 1/12, pp. 1-25
The link between export performance and exchange rate policy has been attracting attention from policymakers, academics, and practitioners for some time, particularly for emerging countries. It has been recently claimed that implementing a policy that devalues the currency in Vietnam is an...
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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The post-crisis sequencing of economic integration in Asia : trade as a complement to a monetary future
Plummer, Michael G. - 2007
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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The German economy and EU industrial tariff reductions : partial and CGE analyses of a stillborn Millennium Round
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...
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A tale of competition between Eastern and Southern Europe : (rerum concordia discors)
Egger, Peter; Kratena, Kurt - 2001
This paper assesses the relationship between EU manufacturing imports from the southern EU and the CEEC. Final goods imports are strongly complementary and intermediate goods imports are substitutive. An increase in the high-skilled to low-skilled labor ratio in the EU-South or the degree of...
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Services versus goods trade : are they the same?
Ariu, Andrea - 2012
In this paper, we present for the first time a qualitative and quantitative comparison between trade in services and trade in goods at firm level for the same country. We focus first on static features of trade such as participation rates, firms' characteristics, heterogeneity, concentration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590476
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The micro-economics of export supply : firm-level evidence from Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso - 2019
This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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