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Trade costs, trade balances and current accounts : an application of gravity to multilateral trade
Fazio, Giorgio; MacDonald, Ronald; Melitz, Jacques - 2005
In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...
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Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs
Jacks, David S. - 2009
What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156494
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The Gravity Equation with Micro-Founded Trade Costs
Rudolph, Stephan - 2010
Gravity Equations are broadly used to estimate the impacts of trade impediments on trade flows. It is often stated that results are implausibly high. In theoretical foundations of the gravity equation, trade costs usually enter as "icebergmelting-costs." This paper offers an alternative approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147873
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Regional Trade in Northeast Asia : Why Do Trade Costs Matter?
De, Prabir - 2021
ascertain that today's trade issues in Northeast Asia go beyond the traditional mechanisms of tariffs, and include "behind … concludes that when tariffs tend to become low in Northeast Asia, the economies in this region could potentially benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317394
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Die Handelskosten von Sachsen
Broll, Udo; Förster, Andreas; Rudolph, Stephan - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 17 (2010) 06, pp. 17-22
Die regionale Struktur und das Volumen der sächsischen Exporte und Importe erklären sich nicht nur durch die relativen Kostenunterschiede zwischen Sachsen und den Handelspartnern; mitentscheidend sind auch die Handelskosten für Exporte und Importe der sächsischen Wirtschaft. Unter...
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Productivity Gains from Offshoring: an Empirical Analysis for the Netherlands
den Butter, Frank A.G.; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007
A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325596
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Productivity gains from offshoring : an empirical analysis for the Netherlands
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007
A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373831
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Trade, Transaction Costs and TFP : Evidence from Tunisia and Egypt
Ghali, Sofiane; Zitouna, Habib; Karray, Zouhour; Driss, Slim - 2014
Increases in total factor productivity (TFP) are commonly associated with accumulation of knowledge through technological innovation and investment in R&D. However, organizational innovations also improve productivity through the reduction of transaction costs. The main purpose of the paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150203
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage … causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes employment but employment does not cause wages. There is significant … sectors. We find the differences in the short and long-run wage and employment responses to changes in export to be explained …
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The collapse speed of China's exports in the 2008-2009 financial crisis
Jing, Ran - 2011
This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP … growth rates of importing countries play an important role in explaining how fast exports fall below the values of the same …
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