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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position

Chor, Davin - 2020

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...

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On the Effects of Sanctions on Trade and Welfare : New Evidence Based on Structural Gravity and a New Database

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2019

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...

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The Impact of Liberalizing Preferential Rules of Origin on Trade and Upgrading in the Clothing Industry : A Review of the Evidence

Curran, Louise - 2016

This paper seeks to explore the relationship between the rules of origin (ROO) governing preferential trade regimes and trade and investment flows. We focus on the regimes in the key markets of the EU and the US. Firstly we look at overall imports, where we do not find liberal ROO to be a key...

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Value Added Trade Costs in Goods and Services

Duval, Yann - 2016

This study introduces a new dataset of bilateral value added trade costs for the goods and services sectors, based on a measure derived from the micro-founded gravity model and using data from the OECD-WTO TiVA database. This is the first study to calculate value added trade costs for a set of...

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Quality and the Great Trade Collapse

Chen, Natalie - 2015

We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...

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The WTO Is Not Passé

Dutt, Pushan - 2020

The empirical literature on the effect of trade agreements has reached a consensus that WTO effects are insignificant or modest at best especially compared to the robust and strong positive effect of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on bilateral trade (Rose, 2004; Eicher and Henn, 2011; Baier and...

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Decipher Global Trade Model : The Macroeconomic Policy Implications

Lee, Jong-Eun - 2014

of the trade system in the OECD countries. Understanding on the linkages between the world trade mechanism and the … macroeconomy is of utmost importance for the post-crisis managements of the world economy. The major points regarding the … encourage the world trade when it is designed in the way to increase private consumption, in fact, only in a few countries …

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Global Commodity Price Falls : A Transitory Boost to Economic Growth in Asia-Pacific Countries with Special Needs

Saggu, Aman - 2015

The recent collapse in international commodity prices has both positive and negative implications for Asia-Pacific economies, depending upon net commodity-trade positions. This paper focuses the impacts to net commodity-importing economies of Asia and the Pacific. It highlights that in addition...

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A Closer Look at Revealed Comparative Advantage : Gross-versus Value Added Trade Flows

Brakman, Steven - 2015

With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...

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Trade Restrictions Hamper World Trade Growth

Volovik, Nadezhda - 2016

World trade growth rates have signiﬁcantly slowed: in 2015, the volume of world trade went up by 2.8% and according to …

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