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Native Language, Spoken Language, Translation and Trade
Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2012
We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for 195 countries, which we use together … with series for common official language and linguistic proximity in order to draw inferences about (1) the aggregate … dummy variable for common language, resting on official language, would say. In addition, ease of communication is far more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553077
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Native language, spoken language, translation and trade
Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2012
We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for 195 countries, which we use together … with series for common official language and linguistic proximity in order to draw inferences about (1) the aggregate … dummy variable for common language, resting on official language, would say. In addition, ease of communication is far more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604035
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Native language, spoken language, translation and trade
Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for 195 countries, which we use together … with series for common official language and linguistic proximity in order to draw inferences about (1) the aggregate … dummy variable for common language, resting on official language, would say. In addition, ease of communication is far more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084380
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Somatic distance, cultural affinities, trust and trade
Mélitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2018
Somatic distance, or differences in physical appearance, proves to be extremely important in the gravity model of bilateral trade in conformity with results in other areas of economics and outside of it in the social sciences. This is also true quite independently of survey evidence about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847586
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Somatic Distance, Cultural Affinities, Trust and Trade
Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - 2018
Somatic distance, or differences in physical appearance, proves to be extremely important in the gravity model of bilateral trade in conformity with results in other areas of economics and outside of it in the social sciences. This is also true quite independently of survey evidence about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872108
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Does financial openness promote economic integration? Some evidence from Europe and the CIS
Carmignani, Fabrizio; Chowdhury, Abdur R. - 2005
We study whether financial openness facilitates the economic integration of formerly centrally planned economies with the EU-15. Two dimensions of economic integration are considered: cross-country convergence of per-capita incomes and bilateral trade in goods and services. We find that more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284651
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The Impact of Financial Openness on Economic Integration: Evidence from the Europe and the Cis
Carmignani, Fabrizio; Chowdhury, Abdur - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2005
We study whether financial openness facilitates the economic integration of formerly centrally planned economies with the EU-15. Two dimensions of economic integration are considered: cross-country convergence of per-capita incomes and bilateral trade in goods and services. We find that more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685673
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Talking trade : language barriers in Intra-Canadian Commerce
Sauter, Nicolas - 2009
This paper tests for one mechanism that can explain the existence of a language barrier to trade. Specifically, I ask … Canadian provinces that know the other's language(s). I find that trade in industries with a need to communicate directly … (orally) with importers increases with the probability that people in another province speak the same language. This finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373519
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Talking Trade: Language Barriers in Intra-Canadian Commerce
Sauter, Nicolas - 2009
This paper tests for one mechanism that can explain the existence of a language barrier to trade. Specifically, I ask … Canadian provinces that know the other's language(s). I find that trade in industries with a need to communicate directly … (orally) with importers increases with the probability that people in another province speak the same language. This finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345428
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Talking Trade : Language Barriers in Intra-Canadian Commerce
Sauter, Nicolas - 2010
This paper tests for one mechanism that can explain the existence of a language barrier to trade. Specifically, I ask … Canadian provinces that know the other's language(s). I find that trade in industries with a need to communicate directly … (orally) with importers increases with the probability that people in another province speak the same language. This finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012715479