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proposed by Finger and Kreinin (1979) with product quality. Quality is measured using unit export prices in the tradition of … the horizontal/vertical intra-industry trade literature. We analyse the EU27 countries' export structures using 1) overall … measures. We find that the similarity of the export structures of the new member countries and the cohesion countries vis …
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We investigate how adopting the euro affects exports using firm-level data from Slovakia and Estonia. In contrast to previous studies, we focus on countries that adopted the euro individually and had different exchange rate regimes prior to doing so. Following the New Trade Theory we consider...
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The aim of the paper is to identify the trade barriers imposed by the Western Balkan countries. All barriers, whether tariff or non-tariff, undoubtedly impede the normal development of trade between countries. Therefore, the paper examines merchandise trade patterns in the Western Balkan region...
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productivities shape the response of the extensive (decision to export) and the intensive (exported volumes per firm) margins of … into the European Customs Union in 1996. A reduction in tariffs increases the probability to export and, surprisingly, the …. This occurs because, even if the productivity threshold to enter the export market falls in the same proportion as tariffs …
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The European Union and the Mercosur are presently negotiating a Free Trade Area, and that may improve the conditions of access of Latin American exports to the European market. In a matter of fact, the European Union's Commercial Policy is very discriminatory and is not favorable to Mercosur...
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This paper explores the ramifications of customs unions (CUs) for multilateral trade cooperation within an economic environment characterized by trade-volume volatility and in a competing-exporters framework. We demonstrate that the parallel formation of different CUs leads to a gradual but...
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and sales compared to more exposed firms. We do not find significant differences for export volumes to the UK or elsewhere …
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in wine exports and to discover whether there are cyclical co-movements with the European wine export cycle. This paper … European wine export cycle since the inception of the European Economic Community. The main objective is to investigate whether … there has been a “European” wine export cycle over the last six decades. The cycles of wine exports are obtained using de …
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