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Measure and determinants of border effects of Brazilian states

Daumal, Marie; Zignago, Soledad - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 89 (2010) 4, pp. 735-758

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Trade and unemployment in Germany : an empirical exploration and some theory

Klein, Martin; Weirowski, Tobias - 2011

This paper investigates the link between unemployment and external trade in Germany, using data on unemployment, international trade and economic activity for the 16 German federal states (Länder). With panel data econometrics we show that international trade as measured by state-wise trade...

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Positioning Austria in the global economy : value added trade, international production sharing and global linkages

Stehrer, Robert; Stöllinger, Roman - 2013

This study investigates Austria's positions in international production sharing and global value chains exploiting the recently available Global Input-Output Database (WIOD). Researchers and policy-makers become increasingly aware of the fact that production processes are more and more organised...

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Border effects without borders : what divides Japan's internal trade?

Wrona, Jens - 2015

Over the last 20 years the trade literature repeatedly documented the trade-reducing effects of inter- and intra-national borders. Thereby, the puzzling size and persistence of observed border effects from the beginning raised doubts on the role of underlying political borders. However, when...

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Coverage and enforceability of investment rules in PTAs : the role of global value chain trade and regulatory differences

Bruhn, Dominique - 2015

Against the background of a changing landscape of trade and investment governance in the 21st century, characterised by the proliferation of deep preferential trade agreements (PTAs), this paper econometrically tests the importance of global value chain trade and regulatory differences in...

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Revisiting national border effects in foreign trade in goods of Canadian provinces

Suvankulov, Farrukh - 2015

A significant body of empirical studies demonstrates sizable national border effects in foreign trade of Canadian provinces throughout the 1980s and 1990s. This paper revisits and expands the scope of the border effects analysis by estimating the border effect in trade with U.S. states as well...

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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects

Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015

distance and adjacency, capturing variable natural trade costs; however, the heterogeneity in EIAs' partial effects on the … extensive margin is explained empirically by distance and adjacency, as well as several other cultural and institutional …

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Trade and growth under limited liberalization

Bakanova, Marina; Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - 2002

This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR...

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Trade in value added : concepts, estimation and analysis

Javorsek, Marko; Camacho, Ignacio - 2015

This working paper introduces the concept of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) and presents an initial analysis of TiVA for selected regional ESCAP economies. The paper introduces Global Value Chains (GVCs) and issues for the measurement of trade statistics due to proliferation of GVCs. It further...

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Road connectivity and the border effect : evidence from Europe

Braconier, Henrik; Pisu, Mauro - 2013

estimates of the border effect for continental Europe using road rather than great circle – or “as-crows-fly” – distance. Road … information on travel time, we are able to consider costs related to time in addition to those depending on distance. We find that … for the same great circle distance and the same city size, the road distance between two cities located in the same …

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