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Redding and Sturm (2008) use the German division as a natural experiment to study the importance of market access for regional development. They show empirically that cities close to the East-West German border experienced a significant decline in population growth due to division. I argue that...
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Rules of origin differ among overlapping free trade agreements, raising firm compliance costs, discouraging utilization of trade preferences, and hindering regional value chains. Using a unique dataset comparing the restrictiveness of product-specific rules of origin (PSRO) between the Regional...
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Market access is the most important liberalizing principle in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It entails a general prohibition of quantitative restrictions, which however is conditional on commitments undertaken by Members in their respective Schedules of Commitments. Case-law...
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This paper evaluates the welfare impact of observed levels of migration and remittances in both origins and … and thus higher welfare, all else equal. Because of this effect, natives in countries that received a lot of migration … results show that the welfare impact of observed levels of migration is substantial, at about 5 to 10% for the main receiving …
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, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with …
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national welfare. Peculiarities of trade and economic liberalization of trade through mechanism of regional trade agreements … national economic growth rates and on GDP per capita (as major parameters reflecting national welfare level) was simulated … increasing of national welfare shall occur in Ukraine and China. …
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strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint. Importantly, trade costs affect cartel shipments and welfare not …
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equilibrium trade model, the impact of the selected trade policy instruments on trade and welfare of the EU as well as Austria is …
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Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the...
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