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European Union’s SPS and TBT Measures, Gender Specific Obstacles and Agricultural Employment

Kareem, Fatima Olanike - 2017

We investigate the implications of EU non-tariff barriers in the form sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) measures and … the non-tariff measure, but more so because of their unequal access to opportunities such as gender inequality in … burdens and building the educational capacity of women to effectively deal with such non-tariff barriers, could work to remove …

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Gravity Modeling: International Trade and Innovations

Josheski, Dushko; Fotov, Risto - 2013

In this paper issue of gravity modeling in international trade has been investigated. Standard gravity equation augmented with other variables to control for transportation cost, whether trade partners are neighbors and whether country is landlocked, or countries participants in trade have had...

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Horizontal and Vertical Differentiation: Approaching Endogenous Measurement in Intra-industry Trade

Dutta, Sourish - 2023

Studying intra-industry trade involves theoretical explanations and empirical methods to measure the phenomenon. Indicators have been developed to measure the intensity of intra-industry trade, leading to theoretical models explaining its determinants. It is essential to distinguish between...

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Critical Review of the Paper 'A Simple Model of Firm Heterogeneity, International Trade and Wages', Stephen Ross Yeaple (2005), Journal of International Economics, vol. 65, pp. 1-2...

Atif, Syed Muhammad - 2012

This report critically analyses the paper "A Simple Model of Firm Heterogeneity, International Trade and Wages' authored by, Stephen Ross Yeaple. Yeaple (2005) introduces a static model in which ex-ante homogeneous firms are differentiated based on heterogeneity in technology adoption and skill...

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The polarisation of remote work

Braesemann, Fabian; Stephany, Fabian; Teutloff, Ole; … - 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of remote work with consequences for the global division of work. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it could also increase spatial polarisation. However, our understanding of the geographies of remote work is limited. Specifically, does...

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Quantifying the Value of Preferential Trade in Russia and CIS

Taganov, Boris - 2015

In this paper, we assess the value of Russia’s preferential imports from all trade partners and CIS countries in particular. Total value of preferential imports in Russia (both duty free imports as well as imports subject to the discounted MFN duty under GSP) is equal to ca 12% (37.8 USD bln.)...

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Fairness in International Trade Policy: Equality and Differential Treatment in Theory and Practice

Häußermann, Johann Jakob - 2017

In 'Fairness in Practice – A Social Contract for a Global Economy' (2012) Aaron James proposes a substantial normative framework for a theory of fairness in the global economy. Based on a distinctive methodology of interpretive constructivism, James argues for an internal justification of...

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Current account imbalances: Possibilities for Trade Policy Action under the Auspices of the WTO – a German Perspective

Alm, Bastian; Weins, Sebastian - 2018

Since 2011, Germany has consistently been the country posting the largest current account surpluses in the world. In recent years, this has led to a number of calls from economists and policy-makers in and outside Germany, and from international institutions and organisations, asking the Federal...

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Effect of Aid for Trade flows on the Accession to the World Trade Organization

Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - 2022

Existing studies on the determinants of countries' accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) have neglected the role that Aid for Trade (AfT) flows might have played in states' accession process to the WTO. The present study aims to fill this void in the literature by investigating the...

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Effect of structural economic vulnerability on the participation in international trade

Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - 2022

This paper has investigated the effect of countries' structural economic vulnerability (EVI) on their participation in international trade, using an unbalanced panel dataset of 118 countries over the period from 1996 to 2018, and the two-step system generalized method of moments estimator. It...

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