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Strengthening India-Nepal economic relations

Taneja, Nisha; Prakash, Shravani; Bimal, Samridhi; … - 2019

transit facility through its territory to access sea ports for trading with rest of the world. Given this, the main objective …

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Why do countries enter into preferential agreements on trade in services? : assessing the potential for negotiated regulatory convergence in Asian services markets

Sauvé, Pierre; Shingal, Anirudh - 2014

More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 …) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank's database on the restrictiveness of domestic services … results suggest that countries within Asia that are more remote from the rest of the world and that have similar economic …

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International service transactions : is time a trade barrier in a connected world?

Dettmer, Bianka - 2010

The firms' international fragmentation of production has recently widened its focus from outsourcing of intermediates to off-shoring of business services such as software program development and international call centre networks. Although a large number of business services are intangible and...

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Services liberalization in the new generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) : how much further than the GATS?

Roy, Martin (contributor); Marchetti, Juan (contributor); … - 2006

This paper attempts to fill a gap in the trade literature by providing a comprehensive overview of services liberalization commitments in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as compared to prevailing GATS commitments and Doha Round offers. By developing a new database, the...

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Gravity and trade in video on demand services

Broocks, Annette; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2021

We estimate the patterns of catalogue availability (extensive margin) and number of clicks per title (intensive margin) using a novel data set containing the information on Netflix catalogues and viewing across 20 countries. Our results show evidence of the gravity framework explaining both...

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Gravity and trade in video on demand services

Broocks, Annette; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2021

Over the last decade, watching videos online has become one of the primary uses of the internet, with streaming services accounting for more than 60% of global internet traffic. In this paper we use a novel data set on Netflix, the largest streaming platform worldwide, to estimate the patterns...

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International trade in online services

Alaveras, Georgios; Martens, Bertin - 2015

This paper presents an innovative database of domestic and bilateral online services trade between 39 countries, including the US, the EU and some emerging market economies. It combines monetized and "free" online services in a single measure based on the volume of page views on websites of...

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Comparative advantage in the 24/7 economy : time-zone differences and service trade flows

Roy, Arundhati Sinha; Aditya, Anwesha; Chattopadhyay, … - 2024

Traditional gravity models posit an inverse relationship between geographical distance and bilateral trade due to increased transportation costs. However, recent literature suggests that bilateral service trade may increase between two countries located at an appropriate geographical distance....

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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship

Leyaro, Vincent - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as inequality can be considered a proxy for 'governance...

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Endogenous trade policy : political struggle in the growth process

Sugimoto, Yoshiaki (contributor) - 2006

This paper develops a dynamic theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class conflicts, and output growth performance over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional effects of international trade, it finds a prominent...

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