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export destinations. This suggests that Africa's exporting activity is volatile and subject to much experimentation, with … export flows and destination markets. Yet, without strengthening productive capacities, the diversification of export …
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The financial crisis and the debt crisis in Europe lead to pronounced swings of the $/€-exchange rate. The influence of this exchange rate uncertainty on exports is neither theoretically nor empirically unambiguous. Therefore, this investigation tries to find out what effect exchange rate...
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The North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect in January 1994. From that year until 2000, Mexican exports grew three times faster (15%) than in the previous six years. This remarkable showing has encouraged Mexico and other countries to pursue more accords. Nevertheless, the...
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Firms play a critical role in the global economy. In this paper, we survey the behavior of firms in the international economy, both in theory and in the data. We first summarize the key empirical facts that motivate the study of firms in trade. Then, we detail recent theoretical developments on...
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Following the gains of Greek non-fuel goods export market shares in the period 2005-2008, a continuous decline was … export market shares during the pre- and postcrisis periods by employing the constant market share analysis framework. Our … geographical distribution of exports, fuelled by the strong trade growth in Greece’s main export markets (i.e. the euro area and …
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This article presents a study of exports of 131 countries for the years 1928-1936. There are two important results. One, while world exports in current USD began to rebound from the collapse of trade during the Great Depression in 1933, world exports in constant US gold dollars decreased...
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The objective of this research is to reexamine the constraints to export supply in ECOWAS countries, mainly in intra … estimates show tariffs are not a constraint on ECOWAS countries' export supply. From these results, we conclude that the low … export diversification of ECOWAS economies remains the major constraint on their capacity to supply the intra-regional market …
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of the product composition on export expansion. However, the standard trade theory predicts that export success depends … on pursuing comparative advantages rather than policy-induced export diversification. This paper studies the relationship … between product diversification and export performance of developing Asian economies using panel data from 1976 to 2017. The …
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products (extensive margin), and the demise of existing products (failure margin) to the export expansion of developing Asian … level, we find that product deepening plays a crucial role in export success for total merchandise and its subcategories …
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COVID-19 has raised questions about the resilience of agri-food trade to global shocks to the system. This paper analyses the changes in agri-food trade (values, extensive and intensive margin, and diversification) during the pandemic at global and regional levels. It also considers parallels in...
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