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International Trade and Unemployment: A Quantitative Framework
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2013
Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. We develop a quantitative trade framework which explicitly models labor...
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Trade Integration and the Fragility of Trade Relationships: A Product Level Perspective
Nitsch, Volker; Besedes, Tibor - 2013
We investigate the effect of economic integration agreements on the stability of international trade at the 4 digit SITC level. Using annual trade data for over 180 countries from 1962 to 2005 we examine how economic integration agreements affect the length of trade relationships, the volume at...
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Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy
Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2011
We examine the impact of revocation of tariff exemptions on exports of developing countries, using data from the cases of Competitive Needs Limits (CNL) built into the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). CNLs are arguably imposed on super competitive GSP beneficiaries and aim to limit their...
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Which Factors Determine the Utilization of Preferential Tariff Rates?
Lukaszuk, Piotr; Legge, Stefan - 2019
The number of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements has surged in recent years. In order to benefit from preferential tariff rates,firms must apply and comply with rules of origin requirements. This is costly and explains why preference utilization rates (PUR) are far below 100 percent. In...
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Where is the value added? China's WTO entry, trade and value chains
Aichele, Rahel; Heiland, Inga - 2014
In the 2000s, China's WTO entry constituted a major trade shock. In this paper, we analyze its eff ects on trade and …-accession levels. We find that China's WTO entry strengthend the Asian production network. Chinese value added in exports reduced and …
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Missing Tariffs, False Imputation, and the Trade Elasticity
Teti, Feodora - 2023
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The causal impact of trade and migration flows on bilateral attitudes
Zoller-Rydzek, Benedikt; Strecker, Nora; Keller, Florian - 2023
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Heterogeneous Effects of Tariff and Nontariff Policy Barriers in General Equilibrium
Egger, Peter Hannes; Egger, Peter - 2016
Most applied work in international economics treats trade policy (a) as a linear component of trade costs and (b) as an exogenous variable. This paper proposes a structural modelling approach that allows for the estimation of (possibly) non-parametric effects of trade policy using a propensity...
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Russian Regions: Foreign Trade and Economic Development
Sherov-Ignatyev, Vladimir - 2013
impact of WTO accession and CU RBK arrangement on the economic development of Russian regions. We start with the general … the WTO accession of Russia. Oil- and gas-rich regions do not expect serious effect. On the other hand, regions … the WTO accession. The customs union formation gives a chance to alleviate such negative development, providing easier …
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Changes in spatial structure of commercial activity in Central European towns - case of southwest Poland (1990-2010). Traditional shops vs. modern shopping structures
Szumilas, Agnieszka - 2012
Commercial sector, during the times of centrally planned economy was particularly neglected in Poland, as in all Eastern European countries. Economic transformation and political changes in the country after 1989 induced the development of the commercial sector. The subjects of the research are...
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