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Trade, Technology Diffusion and Misallocation : Trade Partner Matters
Curuk, Malik - 2012
This paper suggests that contingent on the productivity level of the trade partner; international trade may create … induced by trade and cross sectoral heterogeneity in productivity distributions, and technology adoption rates leads to …) increases economy wide markup variation, (2) raises mean sectoral productivity, and (3) decreases productivity dispersion within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168815
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Germs, globalization, and trade spillovers : how could COVID-19 affect African economies and AfCFTA
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Maswana, Jean-Claude; Hirano, Yumeka - 2023 - Draft version
the low labor-productivity growth in the African nations-without reinventing the wheel by estimating the impact of … preferential access trade agreement--the ricochet effect of the trade-induced productivity benefits via intermediates in the … Analysis Project (GTAP) with 27 sectors and 51 regions. The paper shows: (i) role of trade-mediated productivity benefits for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232447
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Measuring the world economy
Badinger, Harald - 2011
Over the last decades there has been a sizeable increase in trade and financial openness, triggered by current and capital account liberalization as well as improvements in transport and communication technologies. As a consequence, the importance of spillover effects is likely to have increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518032
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Trade in value added : concepts, estimation and analysis
Javorsek, Marko; Camacho, Ignacio - 2015
This working paper introduces the concept of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) and presents an initial analysis of TiVA for selected regional ESCAP economies. The paper introduces Global Value Chains (GVCs) and issues for the measurement of trade statistics due to proliferation of GVCs. It further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529478
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Clustering value-added trade : structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014 - Manuscript date: 2 June 2014
A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010376488
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Trade Liberalisation and the Poverty of Nations : A Review Article
Athukorala, Prema-chandra - 2014
This paper aims to contribute to the contemporary policy debate on the role of trade policy reforms in economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries through a review of Trade Liberalisation and The Poverty of Nations by A.P. Thirlwall and Penelope Pacheco-Lopez (Cheltenham,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178363
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The KOF Globalisation Index - revisited
Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2018
In this paper we present and describe the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalisation for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006) and updated in Dreher et al....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847841
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Trade and the post-2015 development agenda
Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2017
Trade can and should play an important role in making progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This includes trade and investment in services, as realizing many of the goals is conditional on improved performance of services sectors in developing countries. The global environment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012700556
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Institutions, Infrastructure and Trade
Francois, Joseph F. - 2007
We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730853
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Institutions, infrastructure, and trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007
We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742153