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A recent literature explores the nature and causes of the collapse in international trade during 2008 and 2009. The …; quantities fell by more than prices; and prices fell less for differentiated products. Do these stylised facts apply to trade … what extent the trade collapses of the Great Depression and Great Recession resembled each other. It also compares the free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796010
A recent literature explores the nature and causes of the collapse in international trade during 2008 and 2009. The …; quantities fell by more than prices; and prices fell less for differentiated products. Do these stylised facts apply to trade … what extent the trade collapses of the Great Depression and Great Recession resembled each other. It also compares the free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793401
Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752744
supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations … have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … for 1760 and 1850. Neither claim is supported. Trade was vital for the progress of the industrial revolution; but it was …
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find appropriate solutions to the constraints generated by this process. At the same time, the trans-Atlantic trade flows … with the USA). This paper provides an overall image of trade relationships between CEECs and the EU and USA employing …
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economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We … study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all countries with available data extending back to 1870. Using the … gravity model, we estimate the contemporaneous and lagged effects of wars on the trade of belligerent nations and neutrals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620403
Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates.  We construct a three-region model of the world in which … find that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194334
Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083876
This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299136
This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264499