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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023177
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Foreign Language Learning : An Econometric Analysis
Ginsburgh, Victor A. - 2014
The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048885
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Africa's integration in the WTO multilateral trading system : academic support and the role of WTO Chairs
Smeets, Maarten - 2021 - Manuscript date: 22 February 2021
The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This...
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Terrorism and Trade
van Bergeijk, Peter A. G. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777920
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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
Alfaro, Laura - 2009
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries - close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721204
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Trade Policy, New Century : The WTO, FTAs and Asia Rising
Sally, Razeen - 2008
In recent years, debates on international trade policy have focused on the role of the World Trade Organization and the … drive trade liberalisation. Also, the world's fastest growing economies are those Asian economies that have embraced free … respond by removing their own protectionism. Unilateral action, not trade negotiations, is the key: the world cannot wait for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724128
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On PTAs and bilateral trade : is GVC trade sensitive to the breadth of trade policy cooperation?
Delera, Michele; Foster-McGregor, Neil - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/84, pp. 1-16
We study the relationship between the scope of trade policy cooperation and bilateral trade flows with a particular focus on global value chain (GVC) trade using data on the core and non-core provisions included in preferential trade agreements (PTAs). We find that broader PTAs have a larger...
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Catalyst or barrier? : heterogeneous effects of standards on agricultural trade between China and the Belt and Road countries
Yang, Lijuan; Du, Weigong - In: International studies of economics 18 (2023) 1, pp. 53-79
There is an ongoing debate about whether standards act as trade catalysts or barriers. This article uses a gravity model to analyze the effects of national standards on the trade of agricultural products between China and the 64 Belt and Road (B&R) countries from 1990 to 2019. Mandatory...
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Staggered difference-in-differences in gravity settings : revisiting the effects of trade agreements
Nagengast, Arne J.; Yotov, Yoto - 2023
We nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimates in the current gravity literature may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431432
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Staggered difference-in-differences in gravity settings : revisiting the effects of trade agreements
Nagengast, Arne J.; Yotov, Yoto - 2023
We nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimates in the current gravity literature may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435475