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The last decades have witnessed the rise of a new wave of economic regionalism, the most remarkable example of which is the European Union. Regional economic integration is generally interpreted either as an attempt to resist the centrifugal forces of globalisation by strenghtening economic ties...
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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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I investigate the effect of changing language skills on trade using an unique panel data set on spoken language. It tracks over thirty, mostly European, countries from the mid-90s to the beginning of the 2010s. In this period, European countries have witnessed an advancing trade integration and...
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In this article I analyze the export behavior of firms located in different Central European countries (Austria …, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia) with respect to migration. Ever since the seminal article by Gould (1994) on immigrant … information coming from a questionnaire conducted among 8,300 firms on the export behavior to different countries with regional …
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We present some preliminary empirical results on impact of international certification on export behavior of Russian … comes from two rounds of nation-wide survey on the competitiveness of Russian manufacturing enterprises conducted in 2005 … use several different empirical models to examine the effect of certification on export activity and to control for …
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This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature …, and export. The main finding is that firms which become innovative are more likely to also become an exporter, especially … when they do not have prior export experiences. …
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This paper investigates whether and to what extent nonreciprocal preference regimes have increased developing countries' exports to richer countries. Moreover, it analyzes how they have affected donors' exports to beneficiary countries. Using recent developments in the econometric analysis of...
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launching new products on the export market, and overall technical changes captured by total factor productivity growth. We …
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Global Value Chains (GVCs) provide an important opportunity to become member of the global economy. Gaining access to GVCs and the possibility of developing linkages with major suppliers and customers enables the prospect to upgrade products and production processes via knowledge and...
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We develop a theory of economic disintegration that features both endogenously formed tax and trade policies. We show very generally that the economic disintegration of a country from an economic union leads to a deeper integration of international trade institutions. Moreover, we set up a...
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