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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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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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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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strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint. Importantly, trade costs affect cartel shipments and welfare not …
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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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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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This paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find...
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The paper presents an analysis of real income convergence between the 11 countries of Central Eastern Europe which have joined the European Union (EU11) and 15 countries of Western Europe (EU15) in the period 1993-2015. The evolution of the income gap between the two groups of countries in terms...
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