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Five essays on international trade, factor flows, and the gains from globalization
Heiland, Inga - 2017
This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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Sorting it out : technical barriers to trade and industry productivity
Felbermayr, Gabriel (contributor);  … - 2008
Trade economists traditionally study the effect of lower variable trade costs. While increasingly important politically, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) have received less attention. Viewing TBTs as fixed regulatory costs related to the entry into export markets, we use a model with...
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Heterogeneous firms, trade, and economic policy : insights from a simple two-sector model
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011
The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...
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Business conditions and default risks across countries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
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Business conditions and default risks across countries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939217
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Maximizing the Opportunities of the Internet for International Trade
Meltzer, Joshua P - 2016
The last decade has witnessed remarkable developments in the digital economy, creating new opportunities for crossborder trade and investment and the ongoing emergence of novel and disruptive businesses models. At the same time, the Internet is transforming how goods and services are produced,...
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Regulatory Heterogeneity and Global Value Chain-Related Trade
Lombini, Alessio - 2022
In this paper, I estimate the impact of heterogeneity in non-tariff measures policies on countries’ global value chain-related trade and its backward and forward components. I first build a regulatory distance index, which measures the degree of dissimilarity in non-tariff measure structures...
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An economic analysis of the US-China trade conflict
Bekkers, Eddy; Schroeter, Sofia - 2020 - Manuscript date: 26 February 2020
This paper provides an economic analysis of the trade conflict between the US and China, providing an overview of the … average to 17% between the US and China, and the Phase One Agreement signed in January 2020 between the two countries only … and China in 2019 and is accompanied by considerable trade diversion to imports from other regions, leading to a …
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Methods for ex ante economic evaluation of free trade agreements
Cheong, David - 2010
This paper provides practical techniques to policymakers for evaluating the potential economic effects of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). To this end, the paper discusses how to apply three methods: (i) trade indicators, (ii) SMART (Software for Market Analysis and Restrictions on Trade) in WITS...
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Market imperfections, wealth inequality, and the distribution of trade gains
Foellmi, Reto; Oechslin, Manuel - 2010
Globalization increasingly involves less-developed countries (LDCs), i.e., economies which usually suffer from severe imperfections in their financial systems. Taking these imperfections seriously, we analyze how credit frictions affect the distributive impact of trade liberalizations. We find...
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