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Chapter 5 : Trade Blocs as Determinants of Trade Flows in South American Countries: An Augmented Gravity Model Approach
Hernandez, Clemente - 2014
This paper contains an empirical analysis on the determinants of trade flows in South America through the estimation of an augmented Gravity Model. Using data for countries belonging to the MERCOSUR and the Andean Community (CAN) this research attempts to test the hypotheses of the augmented...
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Trade facilitation and social welfare in Africa
Sakyi, Daniel; Bonuedi, Isaac; Opoku, Eric Evans Osei - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 5 (2018) 1/2, pp. 35-53
Improving social welfare in the developing world remains a top priority on the global development agenda, as policymakers and international development partners worldwide strive to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Using data on 40 African countries over the period 2010-2015, this...
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New Evidence in the Relationship Between Trade Openness and Food Security in SubSaharan Africa
Wonyra, Kwami Ossadzifo; GNEDEKA, Kodjo Theodore - 2022
This paper reexamines the effect of trade openness on food security in Sub-Saharan African countries. Panel data covering 37 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period from 2004 to 2018 were mobilized. In order to control the unobserved heterogeneity and the potential endogeneity of...
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Technical Efficiency of Sri Lanka's Manufacturing Industries Post - Trade Liberalisation
Karunaratne, Neil Dias; Bandara, Yapa M.W.Y - 2015
This paper analyses the technical efficiency (TE) of Sri Lanka's manufacturing sector in the Post-Liberalisation (post-1977) period. It applies a recently developed stochastic frontier-efficiency modelling technique to estimate technical efficiency/inefficiency of manufacturing industries using...
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A sensitivity analysis on the impact of regional trade agreements in bilateral trade flows
Ahcar Olmos, Jaime Rafael; Rodríguez-Barco, David - In: Estudios de economía 47 (2020) 2, pp. 193-219
We estimate the effect of RTAs on bilateral exports by means of a gravity model analyzing its sensitivity to different specifications and methods. RTAs generate a sizable positive effect. However, shifting to country-pair and time-varying fixed effects systematically reduces coefficients....
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Globalization and Protection of Employment
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Somogyi, Frank - 2009
Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests … globalization and two labor market segments. While overall globalization is shown to loosen protection of the regularly employed, it … economy arguments as explanations for these differential effects. -- Globalization ; international trade ; integration …
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Globalization and Protection of Employment
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Somogyi, Frank - 2009
Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. This paper tests … globalization and two labor market segments. While overall globalization is shown to loosen protection of the regularly employed, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203537
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The impact of migration on trade : immigrants are good for trade
Genç, Murat - 2014
International trade and migration are two important dimensions of globalization. Although governments have been very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420514
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Financial development, financial openness and trade openness : new evidence
Pham, Thi Hong Hanh - 2010
Employing the Pedroni co-integration technique and the GMM estimator, this paper aims at investigating the possible connection between financial development, financial openness and trade openness in twenty-nine Asian developing countries over 1994-2008. Firstly, we find a bidirectional causality...
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Trade and growth under limited liberalization
Bakanova, Marina; Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - 2002
This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR...
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