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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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Information Matters: A Theoretical Comparison of Some Cross-Border Trade Barriers

Wilson, Chris M. - 2016

There is widespread evidence that geographical borders reduce trade. This paper presents a theoretical model capable of providing a succinct comparison of three broad forms of trade barriers involving i) trade costs, ii) localized tastes, and iii) information frictions. Despite being...

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Do Aid for Trade flows affect Technology Licensing in Recipient Countries?

Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - 2023

There is an abundant literature on the economic (including trade) effects of Aid for Trade (AfT) flows. However, little attention has been devoted to the effect of AfT flows on demand for technology. The present article aims to fill this void in the literature by investigating the effect of AfT...

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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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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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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 technical barriers to trade (TBT) on gender relations in the agricultural labour market between 1995 and 2012. Our results indicate that women are disproportionately disadvantaged...

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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 effect of AfT flows on the probability of acceding to the WTO. 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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Effect of the Utilization of Non-Reciprocal Trade Preferences offered by the QUAD on Economic Growth in Beneficiary Countries

Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm - 2021

At the second conference of the UNCTAD in 1968, member states adopted a Resolution (Resolution 21(ii)) which stated, inter alia, that the offer of the non-reciprocal trade preferences (NRTPs) by wealthier countries to developing countries should aim to increase the export earnings of developing...

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