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Is China climbing up the quality ladder? : estimating cross country differences in product quality using Eurostat's COMEXT trade database

Pula, Gábor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...

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Sectoral trade freeness and agglomeration in the EU : an empirical test strategy

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2012

relationship, at the sectoral level in a group of EU countries. Our main objective is to test at the sectoral level the conclusions …

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Globalization, integration and regional specialization

Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2000

Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the industrial specialization of European regions, thereby potentially affecting the extent of disparities between countries and regions. This paper reviews several theoretical...

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Is China Climbing Up the Quality Ladder? Estimating Cross Country Differences in Product Quality Using Eurostat's COMEXT Trade Database

Pula, Gabor - 2011

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The Dynamics of Trade and Competition

Chen, Natalie - 2010

domestic and foreign openness on each economy. Using disaggregated data for EU manufacturing over the period 1989-1999 we find …

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Deep Trade Policy Options for Armenia : The Importance of Trade Facilitation, Services and Standards Liberalization

Jensen, Jesper - 2011

impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or … multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find that a DCFTA with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia … harmonization. A shallow agreement with the EU that focuses only on preferential tariff liberalization in goods will likely lead to …

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Behind the Eastern-Western European Convergence Path : The Role of Geography and Trade Liberalization

Cristobal-Campoamor, Adolfo - 2011

This paper proposes a 2-country 3-region economic geography model that can account for the most salient stylized facts experienced by Eastern European transition economies during the period 1990-2003. In contrast to the existing literature, which has favored technological explanations, trade...

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A Survey on the Micro-Foundations of the Trade Gravity Equation

Candau, Fabien - 2011

The aim of this paper is to review the state of art regarding the theoretical foundations of gravity equations applied to trade flows. Micro-foundations of the supply side and of the demand side are presented such as new models where a) general equilibrium constraints are taken into account b)...

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The European Integration of the Turkish Industry : A Trade Analysis

Saz, Gökhan - 2011

Turkish economy and the EU economies. We perform a thorough depiction of the various aspects of the trade integration of …-industry trade. Nevertheless, the findings also suggest that the trend is positively aligned to approach the EU structures in the …

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration : Policy Implications

Petri, Peter A. - 2012

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, now in negotiation among nine Asia-Pacific countries, could yield annual global income gains of $295 billion (including $78 billion for the United States) and offers a pathway to free trade in the Asia-Pacific with potential gains of $1.9 trillion....

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