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Quality and gravity in international trade : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2016
Flach, Lisandra; Unger, Florian - 2016
. Consistent with our theory, vertical differentiation affects exports via sunk costs and the extensive margin, whereas the effect …
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Income inequality and export prices across countries
Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013
leads to higher average prices. We test the theory using detailed data for Brazilian exporters and find that the destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764401
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Comparative advantages, transaction costs and factor content of agricultural trade : empirical evidence from CEE
Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel; Pokrivčák, Ján - 2008
The present study examines factor content of the CEE transition country agricultural trade. We examine the relative country abundance for labour, capital and land, and test the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) hypothesis. Our empirical findings suggest that the factor content of agricultural exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523450
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Factor content of agricultural trade
Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel - 2009
In this paper we study factor content of the CEE agricultural trade. In order to account for differences in technology and factor prices in CEE, the theoretical framework of the present study builds on the previous work of Helpman (1984) and Staiger (1986) who consider a trade equilibrium in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523480
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Trade costs and demand-enhancing effects of agrifood standards : consequences for Sub-Saharan Africa
Djimgou Tchakounte, Aristide; Fiankor, Dela-Dem - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 8 (2021) 1, pp. 51-64
Agrifood standards impede trade by increasing compliance costs, but they can also enhance trade by signalling quality. This paper disentangles the trade costs and demand-enhancing effects of two important standards-technical barriers to trade, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures-on (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805543
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Food Security and Agricultural Trade Liberalization
Hailu, Martha Belete - 2010
security. Lowering of tariff in agricultural products would lead to an increase in import and declining of price of imported … impact on food security in that their removal will increase the price of food in the world market there by increasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193719
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Factor Content of Bilateral Trade : The Role of Firm Heterogeneity and Transaction Costs
Kancs, d'Artis - 2009
In this paper we study the determinants of the factor content of the CEE agricultural trade. Examining empirically three hypothesis, which relate cross-country differences in technology, relative factor abundance and transaction costs and market imperfections to the factor content of trade we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159196
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Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade of Agricultural Products
Campi, Mercedes - 2016
This paper studies the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights (IPRs) after the signing of the TRIPS on agricultural trade, for the period 1995-2011. It uses data of agricultural exports and a new yearly index of intellectual property (IP) protection, for 60 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006250
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Asymmetric price transmission in Indonesia’s wheat flour market
Varela, Gonzalo; Taniguchi, Kiyoshi - 2014
Data indicate that its domestic price in Indonesia has been increasing regardless of movements in the international … price of wheat. A test for asymmetric price transmission from international wheat to domestic wheat flour markets is … conducted using an error correction model and find the presence of asymmetric price transmission. The upward adjustment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336926
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Technology Gaps and Economic Effects of Minimum Quality Standards
Ryu, Han Eol - 2022
against a less-advanced firm in quality and price in the domestic market. The government of the technologically advanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264400