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Regional new economic geography : an appraisal

Granato, María Florencia - 2010

During the last century there has been a huge reduction in trade costs at almost every spatial scale impulsed not only by technological advances applied to transport and communication systems, but also by the spread of regional trade agreements and other related schemes. This estringent fall has...

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The effect of local corruption on ownership strategy in cross border mergers and acquisitions

Di Guardo, Maria Chiara; Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele - 2015

This paper focuses on how corruption affects an important internationalization behavior of firms: the extent of control … most relevant, due to its broad effect on the economy, is corruption. Corruption can be thought of as anything that … specifically in the realm of M&A (see Weitzel and Berns, 2006). Although the level of corruption of the host countries is expected …

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Should the Caribbean look to the East? : an assessment of Caribbean export potential

Lorde, Troy; Alleyne, Antonio; Hosein, Roger; Mu, Yifei - In: The International trade journal 34 (2020) 1, pp. 136-150

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Implementing trade facilitation reform in Africa

Johns, Marcus Bartley; Busch, Christina; McLinden, Gerard - In: African perspectives on trade and the WTO : domestic …, (pp. 295-313). 2016

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A trade facilitation agreement tool to facilitate and secure trade

Toshevska-Trpchevska, Katerina; Kikerkova, Irena; … - In: Trade perspectives in the context of safety, security, …, (pp. 159-197). 2018

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The geography of trade relations between the EU and the ENP countries : emerging patterns and policy recommendations

Petrakos, George; Kallioras, Dimitris; Artelaris, Panagiotis - 2013

The European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), launched in 2004, is a unified European Union (EU) policy framework towards the EU neighboring (ENP) countries. The objective of the ENP is to strengthen the prosperity, stability and security of the (enlarged) EU countries and the ENP countries. Even...

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Development of trade blocs in an era of globalization : proximity still matters

Kohl, Tristan; Brouwer, Aleid E. - 2011 - Version: 19 May 2011, first preliminary draft

This article describes the development of international trade blocs world wide from the 1950s till 2010. We updated the data on international trade flows and introduced a new trade bloc variable based on the intramax hierarchical clustering technique, which defines trade blocs on actual trade...

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An oligopolistic theory of regional trade agreements

Soegaard, Christian - 2013

Why are trade agreements regional? I address this question in a model of oligopoly featuring product variety. Tariffs have the effect of manipulating a country's terms of trade and shifting profits towards the domestic market at the expense of foreign trade partners. Countries endogenously form...

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Domestic product standards and free trade areas : implications for the EU-Japan FTA

Yanase, Akihiko; Kurata, Hiroshi - 2014

This study considers endogenous determination of domestic standards on products that cause negative consumption externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA affects the optimal levels of external tariffs and...

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On the new gold standard in EU trade integration : reviewing the EU-Japan EPA

Gruebler, Julia; Reiter, Oliver; Stehrer, Robert - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 48 (2021) 3, pp. 611-644

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