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Firm Heterogeneity and Comparative Advantage : The Response of French Firms to Turkey's Entry in the European Customs Union

Buono, Ines - 2010

I analyse the effects of a reduction in the tariffs of a trading partner on the exports of domestic firms. More precisely, I focus on how cross-industry differences in factor intensities and within-industry differences in firm productivities shape the response of the extensive (decision to...

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East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe

Melchior, Arne - 2009

Implementation of the European internal market and East-West integration has been accompanied by a dramatic change in the spatial distribution of economic activity, with higher growth west and east of a longitude degree through Germany and Italy. In the east, income growth has been accompanied...

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Firm heterogeneity, rules of origin and rules of cumulation

Bombarda, Pamela; Gamberoni, Elisa - 2008

We analyse the impact of relaxing rules of origin (ROOs) in a simple setting with heterogeneous firms that buy intermediate inputs from domestic and foreign sources. In particular, we consider the impact of switching from bilateral to diagonal cumulation when using preferences (instead of paying...

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Sectorial Border Effects in the European Single Market : an explanation through industrial concentration

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to explain the relation between the Border Effect and industrial concentration. This is achieved by founding this relation on the Home Market Effect and testing the robustness of this foundation through an application to the European Single Market. A sectorial...

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National transmission system operators in an international electricity market

Horn, Henrik; Tangerås, Thomas P. - 2021

This paper develops a framework for analyzing the incentives of national transmission system operators (TSOs) to supply cross-border interconnection capacity in an international electricity market. Our results show that equilibrium transmission capacity is downward distorted, even in situations...

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Trade Coordination in Free Trade Agreements and Customs Unions

Nahm, Sihoon - 2019

Purpose – This paper explains why free trade agreements (FTAs) are more popular than customs unions (CUs) in respect of tariff coordination. Design/methodology – This paper employs an equilibrium theory of trade agreements with tariff coordination. I set up three-country partial equilibrium...

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Impact of Brexit on the Apparel Industry of Bangladesh : A Partial Equilibrium Analysis

Shamsul Arefin, Tareq Muhammad - 2020

Union (EU) on the apparel industry of Bangladesh. There is widespread apprehension that repercussion of Brexit on the … country's most important export sector would be profound because of its close trade links with the UK and EU. Applying partial … export. It identifies that in the post Brexit regime the apparel exports of Bangladesh to EU and UK will suffer as demand for …

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Eastern Enlargement : The Sooner, the Better?

Arndt, Sven W. - 2018

After completion of the internal market and the introduction of the euro, the European Union put Eastern enlargement on the agenda for the new millennium. When the enlargement process was started in 1997, it was aiming at the stability and prosperity for the entire European continent. The...

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Economic Benefits of an Integrated European Market for Services

Bruijn, Roland - 2016

. The Commission proposals cause a shift in industry specialisation. Some of the original EU Member States increase their …

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No Open Borders Yet in the European Internal Market for Services

Kox, Henk L.M. - 2016

The Rome Treaty that forms the basis for the European Union (EU) states that goods, services, capital and labour can … whether differences in regulation between EU member states form a barrier to bilateral trade and direct investment flows in … the EU services markets. The indicator is applied as explanatory variable in a gravity model for explaining bilateral …

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