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Foreign direct investment and trade : a bi-directional gravity approach
Harach, Monika; Rodriguez-Crespo, Ernesto - 2014
This paper compares the traditional gravity model with a bidirectional approach when multilateral resistance is implemented to analyze the effect of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on exports. We use cross-sectional HS trade data disaggregated at a 6-digit level in 2010 with controls for...
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Impact of Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade on Trade Costs
Duval, Yann - 2016
Trade facilitation (the simplification and harmonization of import, export, and transit procedures) including paperless trade (the use and exchange of electronic data and documents to support the trade transaction process), has taken increasing importance as evidenced by the WTO Trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996832
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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs
Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014
To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...
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Assessing Liberalization and Deep Integration in FTAs : A Study of Asia-Latin American FTAs
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2016
Inter-regional free trade agreements (FTAs) -- notably between Asia and Latin America -- are growing in numbers and complexity. There is an absence of an agreed methodology for empirical assessments on the content of FTAs and little research. This paper proposes a framework to assess...
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The Log of Gravity
Santos Silva, J. M.C; Tenreyro, Silvana - 2005
Although economists have long been aware of Jensen's inequality, many econometric applications have neglected an important implication of it: the standard practice of interpreting the parameters of log-linearized models estimated by ordinary least squares as elasticities can be highly misleading...
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Real income convergence between Central Eastern and Western Europe : past, present, and prospects : paper presented at the 33rd CIRET (Centre for International Research on Economic...
Matkowski, Zbigniew; Prochniak, Mariusz; Rapacki, Ryszard - 2016
joined the European Union (EU11) and 15 countries of Western Europe (EU15) in the period 1993-2015. The evolution of the … 2000-2007, just before and after the EU's major enlargement. This suggests that the increasing economic integration … average GDP per capita level seen in Western Europe. The third scenario, based on a long-term economic forecast for the EU …
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Non-tariff trade policy analysis : an ex-post assessment of the EU-Korea agreement
Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver - 2020
ability to predict the trade effects of the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, the first 'second-generation' FTA of the EU … attributable to the EU-South Korea FTA. The message from the evolution of NTMs differs considerably according to the indicator used …
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Trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements : discriminatory or non-discriminatory?
Park, Innwon; Bag, Sun chan - In: East Asian economic review 20 (2016) 4, pp. 447-467
The RTAs with trade facilitation provisions have been expected to generate a larger net trade-creating effect and complement the discriminatory feature of RTAs but have yet to be empirically proven. Recognizing the limitations of existing studies, we conducted a quantitative analysis on the...
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Language, copyright and geographic segmentation in the EU Digital Single Market for music and film
Gomez, Estrella; Martens, Bertin - 2015
The EU seeks to create a seamless online Digital Single Market for media products such as digital music and film. The … empirical evidence on the extent of market segmentation in the EU on the supply and demand side and measures the contribution of … several drivers of this market segmentation. We use data from the Apple iTunes country stores in 27 EU Member States to …
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Geography matters : spatial dimensions of trade, migration and growth
Steinwachs, Thomas - 2019
This volume was prepared by Thomas Steinwachs while he was working at the ifo Center for International Economics. It was completed in September 2018 and accepted as a doctoral dissertation by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU). It is a collection of four self-contained...
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