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Chapter 33 Culture in International Trade
Acheson, Keith; Maule, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1141-1182). 2006
Cultural allegiances whether inherited, imposed or chosen, affect economic activity. Many of these cultural layers – ethnic background, religion, language, ideological orientation, and artistic interests – spill over national boundaries. Cultural ideas travel the world along many routes from...
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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015
Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...
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Cross-border price effects of mergers and acquisitions : a quantitative framework for competition policy ; conference paper
Breinlich, Holger; Nocke, Volker; Schutz, Nicolas - 2013
Decisions of national competition authorities have important effects on other jurisdictions. We provide a framework to …, and are engaged in Cournot competition. We allow for profitable mergers to take place subject to the non-violation of a … given national competition policy. Because of trade costs and perceived differences in qualities between domestic and …
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The impact of geopolitical conflicts on trade, growth, and innovation
Góes, Carlos; Bekkers, Eddy - 2022 - Manuscript date: 10 June 2022
Geopolitical conflicts have increasingly been a driver of trade policy. We study the potential effects of global and persistent geopolitical conflicts on trade, technological innovation, and economic growth. In conventional trade models the welfare costs of such conflicts are modest. We build a...
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Reassessing trade barriers with global value chains
Imura, Yuko - 2019
This paper provides a systematic, quantitative analysis of the short-run and long-run effects of various trade-restricting policies in the presence of global value chains and multinational production. Using a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with endogenous firm entry and...
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Return of the tariffs : the interwar trade collapse revisited
Adam, Marc Christopher - 2019
Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the collapse of the gold standard? Using recent advances in the estimation of gravity equations, I examine the partial and general equilibrium effects of bilateral distance,...
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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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Trade Policy Along the Global Value Chain : A Rationale for the Existence of Deep Trade Agreements
Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2022
This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize in the production of sub-stages of the global value chain. In the open economy, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...
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The economic costs of supply chain decoupling
Attinasi, Maria-Grazia; Boeckelmann, Lukas; Meunier, … - 2023
As countries and firms increasingly seek ways to strengthen the resilience of their supply chains, this paper studies the global economic costs of a decoupling of global supply chains along geopolitical lines as well as in strategic sectors. We explore not only the long-run effects, but also the...
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Trade policy along the global value chain : a rationale for the existence of deep trade agreements
Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2022
This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize in the production of sub-stages of the global value chain. In the open economy, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...
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