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Ethical distance and difference in bilateral trade
Ramasamy, Bala; Yeung, Matthew C. H. - 2012
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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Does globalization cause a higher concentration of international trade and investment flows?
Low, Patrick; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Suárez, Javier - 1998 - Manuscript date: August, 1998
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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International trade and migration : a quantitative framework ; conference paper
Larch, Mario; Sirries, Steffen - 2014 - Preliminaray draft Ferbruary 2014
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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Testing competing world trade models against the facts of world trade
Minford, Patrick; Xu, Yongdeng; Dong, Xue - 2021
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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Modeling the Impact of Non-Tariff Barriers in Services on Intra-African Trade : Global Trade Analysis Project Model
Zongo, Amara Mohamed Isaac; Oyelami, Lukman - 2021
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 Pro-Trade Bias of Offshoring
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab; Chau, Nancy; … - 2021
Technological advance and improvements in communication technologies have facilitated the offshoring of jobs worldwide, where a typical scene following the supply chain involves developing countries importing finished products from developed countries that contain developing country labor...
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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Debunking Protectionist Myths : Free Trade, the Developing World, and Prosperity
Panagariya, Arvind - 2020
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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Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment Flows?
World Trade Organization - 1998
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/10012884304
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Globalization and Trade : A Symposium
Arndt, Sven W. - 2008
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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