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Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy
Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2011
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 exporting capacity. We exploit the variation in the timing of the … implementation of the CNLs across countries to identify the impact. We find that being excluded from the GSP due to a CNL induces a …
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The Impact of Aid for Trade Facilitation on the Costs of Trading
Königer, Jens; Busse, Matthias; Hoekstra, Ruth - 2011
There have been ongoing discussions within the WTO Doha Round on Trade Facilitation and the wider Aid for Trade agenda to assist developing countries in reducing behind-the-border restrictions and to help them benefit from trade reform. Our paper contributes to this debate by analyzing the...
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Foreign Ownership and the Export and Import Propensities of Developing-Country Firms
Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2017
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import both directly and in- directly. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across...
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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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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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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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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 value chains. The fragmentation of the global value chain makes it hard to disentangle who produces for whom. Value added trade contains this information. We build a multi-sector...
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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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