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Trade agreements and bilateral trade in sub-Saharan Africa : estimating the trade effects of the EU-ACP PTA and RTAs

Turkson, Festus Ebo - 2012

This paper on Trade Agreements within SSA, is an assessment of the ex post bilateral trade effect of the European Union-African Caribbean Pacific Preferential Trade Agreement (EU-ACP PTA) and sub-regional regional trade agreements (RTAs) on bilateral trade involving SSA countries. The main...

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Using observable trade data to measure bilateral trade costs in sub-Saharan Africa

Turkson, Festus Ebo - 2012

Following closely the analytical approach adopted by Head and Mayer (2004) and Novy (2010), this paper derives a micro-founded bilateral trade cost measure for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as a function of observable domestic and inter-national trade data. The derived measure of trade cost by Novy...

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Distance and border effects in international trade : a comparison of estimation

Magerman, Glenn; Studnicka, Zuzanna; Van Hove, Jan - 2015

This paper compares various estimation techniques used to determine the impact of distance and borders on international … estimation method. In addition, also the size of both effects varies substantially across estimation methods. Finally, the … authors generally find that the estimations are in line with the respective weighting schemes of each estimation method. …

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On the pro-trade effects of immigrants

Bratti, Massimiliano; De Benedictis, Luca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2012

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by Italy's features - the very high number of countries of origin of immigrants ('super-diversity'),...

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Gravity estimation of the intensive and extensive margins of trade : an alternative procedure with alternative data

Flam, Harry; Nordström, Håkan - 2011

. By using data on the number of bilaterally traded products we improve on identification and allow estimation of the … heteroscedasticity bias is large and important. -- gravity estimation ; heteroscedasticity in data ; intensive and extensive margin …

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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union

Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...

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The Geography of Gravity

Ko, Jun-Hyung - 2016

Although geography has been considered as an important factor in international trades, the spatial heterogeneity has not been fully investigated in the regression of the standard gravity models. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating how the gravity in bilateral trades works...

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The micro-economics of export supply : firm-level evidence from Mexico

Cebreros, Alfonso - 2019

This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...

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Gravity Estimation of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade : An Alternative Procedure with Alternative Data

Flam, Harry - 2011

. By using data on the number of bilaterally traded products we improve on identification and allow estimation of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128040

Trade Linkages and Domestic Market Concentration : An Empirical Exploration for Malaysia

Devadason, Evelyn Shyamala - 2013

This paper examines the univariate relationship between global linkages of the Malaysian manufacturing sector in the form of export intensity and intra-industry trade, respectively, on inter-industry concentration. The recently developed fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic...

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