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Comparative advantages, transaction costs and factor content of agricultural trade : empirical evidence from CEE
Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivčák, Ján - 2008
The present study examines factor content of the CEE transition country agricultural trade. We examine the relative country abundance for labour, capital and land, and test the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) hypothesis. Our empirical findings suggest that the factor content of agricultural exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523450
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South German Silver, European Textiles, and Venetian Trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: A non-mercantilist approach
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
, via new transcontinental trading routes from Venice through Germany to the Brabant Fairs, based on a tripod of English … woollens, South German metals, and Portuguese spices. (b) at the same time, it promoted a great expansion in Venetian trade … the far larger Ottoman Empire benefited from a very new trade: the exports of fine quality Venetian woollens. This paper …
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Organizations and Trade
Antràs, Pol; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791747
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Comparative advantage, multi-product firms and trade liberalisation : an empirical test
Fuss, Catherine; Zhu, Linke - 2012
This paper investigates how economies of scope in multi-product firms interact with comparative advantage in determining the effect of trade liberalisation on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm-product-level data over the period 1997-2007. We first provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596263
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The 'New Institutional Economics' and the Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: the Textile Trades, Warfare, and Transaction Costs
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
This paper revisits, modifies, and combines elements of three major ‘institutional’ international-trade models, none of which has yet fully received the attention that it deserves, to provide a new explanation for the growth, decline, and then rebirth of internationally-oriented fairs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835820
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Intermediation in foreign trade: when do exporters rely on intermediaries?
Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Trabold, Harald; … - 2003
The paper explores theoretically and empirically why trade intermediaries (TIs) are frequently used as agents for exports to some countries but not to others. We adapt a standard intra-industry trade model with variable export costs (e.g. transport) and fixed export costs (e.g. market access) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437889
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Comparative advantage, multi-product firms and trade liberalisation: An empirical test
Fuss, Catherine; Zhu, Linke - 2012
This paper investigates how economies of scope in multi-product firms interact with comparative advantage in determining the effect of trade liberalisation on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm-product-level data over the period 1997-2007. We first provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506739
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Comparative advantage, multi-product firms and trade liberalisation : An empirical test
Fuss, Catherine; Zhu, Linke - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2012
This paper investigates how economies of scope in multi-product firms interact with comparative advantage in determining the effect of trade liberalisation on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm-product-level data over the period 1997-2007. We first provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421129
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Comparative Advantage, Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalisation : An Empirical Test
Fuss, Catherine - 2012
This paper investigates how economies of scope in multi-product firms interact with comparative advantage in determining the effect of trade liberalization on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm-product-level data over the period 1997-2007. We first provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111981
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Comparative advantage, multi-product firms and trade liberalisation : an empirical test
Fuss, Catherine; Zhu, Linke - 2011
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