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Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021
phase-ins of agreements, lagged terms-of-trade effects, reverse causality, various estimation techniques, disaggregation …
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Distance and border effects in international trade : a comparison of estimation
Magerman, Glenn; Studnicka, Zuzanna; Van Hove, Jan - 2015
This paper compares various estimation techniques used to determine the impact of distance and borders on international … estimation method. In addition, also the size of both effects varies substantially across estimation methods. Finally, the … authors generally find that the estimations are in line with the respective weighting schemes of each estimation method. …
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Global trade in final goods and intermediate inputs : impact of FTAs and reduced "border effects"
Franco-Bedoya, Sebastian; Frohm, Erik - 2020
International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of global value chains (GVCs). This paper studies how two factors contributed to this rise since 1970: (i) declining "border effects" that are arguably related to the ICT revolution...
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Reduced "border effects", FTAs and international trade
Franco, Sebastián; Frohm, Erik - 2018
This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects accounts for the bulk of the increase in international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868281
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Reduced 'Border Effects', FTAs and International Trade
Franco, Sebastian - 2018
This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects accounts for the bulk of the increase in international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909797
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Subnational income growth and international border effects
Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Stadelmann, David - 2021
This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational (i.e. regional) growth. We construct an extensive panel dataset covering 1,350 regions in 86 countries worldwide between 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533891
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Evolution in the use of antidumping mechanism after Uruguay round
Firme, Vinícius de Azevedo Couto; Vasconcelos, Claudio … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 3, pp. 321-342
This paper analyzed how the main economies have used the antidumping measures (AD) after the Uruguay round, between 1995 and 2012. Therefore, some techniques were employed in order to reveal the main AD users and the trend, of using this instrument, associated to each one of them. We also tested...
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The costs of regulatory barriers to trade in services : new estimates of ad valorem tariff equivalents
Benz, Sebastian; Jaax, Alexander - 2020
This paper presents new estimates of policy-induced trade costs in five services sectors for 46 countries. Results demonstrate the significant untapped economic potential of multilateral, plurilateral, and unilateral services trade liberalisation. Even though services trade has more than tripled...
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Chapter 1. The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, C.P.; Crowley, M.A. - 2016
This chapter surveys empirically the broad features of trade policy in goods for 31 major economies that collectively represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have more liberal trading regimes than others? Within...
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Advantages and Disadvantages for Canada of Multilateral, Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements
Ciuriak, Dan - 2016
Canada is at an historic juncture with regard to trade policy, deciding on ratification of the Canada-EU and Trans … facing constraints in making additional economic gains from serial bilateral agreements. The key issues facing Canada revolve … brief argues that Canada needs to do the math on the agreements, and to urgently fashion a trade and innovation regime to …
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