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The Optimal Degree of Reciprocity in Tariff Reduction

Chang, Pao-Li - In: East Asian Economic Review (EAER) 24 (2020) 3, pp. 237-252

This paper characterizes the optimal reciprocal trade policy in the environment of Melitz (2003) with firm productivity … heterogeneity. In particular, without making parametric assumptions on firm productivity distribution, this paper derives the … industry productivity, lowering aggregate price; a reciprocal import tariff helps correct the markup distortion, increasing …

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Is intra-industry trade specialization a precondition to business cycle synchronization when joining the Euro Area? The Case of Poland

Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Elżbieta - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 53 (2017) 4, pp. 50-60

The first objective of this paper is to present theoretical approaches to the impact of trade growth (induced by monetary integration) on business cycle synchronization which is an important factor of a country's readiness for a currency union accession. The main conclusion from the first part...

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How preferences shape the welfare and employment effects of trade

Egger, Hartmut; Habermeyer, Simone - In: Review of World Economics 158 (2021) 3, pp. 815-853

We set up a trade model with two countries, two sectors, and one production factor, which features a home-market effect due to the existence of trade costs. We consider search frictions and firm-level wage bargaining in the sector producing differentiated goods and a perfectly competitive labor...

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Deep trade policy options for Armenia: The importance of trade facilitation, services and standards liberalization

Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-1, pp. 1-54

small losses to Armenia primarily due to a loss of productivity from lost varieties of technologies from the Rest of the …

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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising: Application to the case of Kenya

Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-42, pp. 1-134

with Dixit-Stiglitz endogenous productivity effects from additional varieties. They specify a numerical model, with …

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A Panel Analysis of Trade Gravity between Pakistan and South Asian Countries

Jan, Waheed Ullah; Shah, Mahmood - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 187-207

This paper attempts to examinePakistan's trade patterns with South Asian countries by using a gravity model of trade. The main objective of the study is to quantify the long-run impacts of gravity variables. To achieve this objective, a panel data set for the period 2003 to 2017 has been used....

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El efecto de China en el comercio internacional de América Latina

Montenegro, Claudio E.; Pereira, Mariana; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 341-368

Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China's impact on Latin America's trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China's growth in the last years implied a growing supply of exports to this market from most countries in the...

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EU-Korea FTA and its impact on V4 economies: A comparative analysis of trade sophistication and intra-industry trade

Michalski, Bartosz - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 21 (2018) 1, pp. 5-23

This paper investigates selected short- and mid-term effects in trade in goods between the Visegrad countries (V4: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic) and the Republic of Korea under the framework of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of...

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Pass-Through Effects of the East African Community Common External Tariffs on Kenya's Domestic Prices

Mogendi, Justine Ongeri; Nganga, Tabitha Kiriti; … - In: Journal of Economic Integration 38 (2023) 3, pp. 466-495

This study offers an empirical microlevel analysis of the pass-through effects of the East African Community Common External Tariff on consumer prices in Kenya. Using data from the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Surveys conducted in 2005 and 2015, this research employs a fixed-effects model...

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Gravity with Intermediate Goods Trade

Sujin, Sujin; Song, E. Young - In: East Asian Economic Review (EAER) 21 (2017) 4, pp. 295-315

This paper derives the gravity equation with intermediate goods trade. We extend a standard monopolistic competition model to incorporate intermediate goods trade, and show that the gravity equation with intermediates trade is identical to the one without it except in that gross output should be...

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