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international trade. Ethics in international trade is important because purchasing, exports, marketing and sales activities are more … ethics among the protagonists help or hinder bilateral trade. More specifically, we examine if countries that are ethical … importers matter more than exporters as a determinant of bilateral trade. -- Ethics ; Ethical Distance ; Ethical Difference …
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The world economy has become more open and integrated in recent years. Countries are more engaged in international trade and the importance of tradables relative to non-tradables in national output is rising everywhere. Capital flows more freely among countries and workers cross borders more...
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It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater concentration in international trade and investment...
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In 2015, the African Union launched negotiations to establish African Free Trade Agreement named AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area). In this study, we pointed out the importance of the services sector in intra-African trade. It examines the effects of AfCFTA on intra-African trade in...
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The weak global GDP growth since the financial crisis in 2007-2009 has coincided with unusually weak growth in global trade. Organisations that monitor international macro-economic development have identified growing protectionism – not least the increase in non-tariff barriers to trade, such...
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It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater concentration in international trade and investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229107
Goods trade and international mobility of labor are typically analyzed separately. While there is excellent research in both fields, far less is known about the interrelationships between international migration and international trade. This paper provides a first structurally estimable model of...
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More than 170 years ago, Frédéric Bastiat noted in his masterly work Economic Sophisms that the “opposition to free trade rests upon errors, or, if you prefer, upon half-truths.”1 Ever since Adam Smith successfully replaced mercantilist orthodoxy with free trade doctrine in his celebrated...
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We build upon new developments in the international trade literature to isolate and quantify the long-run economic impacts of tariff changes on the United States and the global economy. In particular, we apply the most recent data and trade elasticity estimates to the Ricardian model of Caliendo...
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We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and...
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