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Product quality perception of former centrally planned EU countries' imports and exports
Merella, Vincenzo; Taušer, Josef - 2022
examining EU custom data. Our findings are consistent with products originating from former centrally planned countries being … we consider extra-EU exporters. The evidence aligns with psychology and marketing contributions and may have important …
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Import quality in former centrally planned EU countries
Merella, Vincenzo; Tauser, Josef - 2022
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Defining Development in WTO Law : The Legality and Parameters of Labour Rights Conditionality in the Generalised System of Preferences
O'Brien, Brynn - 2012
This paper argues that GSP labour rights conditionality is in conformity with WTO law. This hinges on the critical question of whether the realisation of labour standards can meet a ‘development need,' a term considered by the WTO Appellate Body report in the EC – Tariffs Preferences case,...
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The Challenge of Implementing Preferential Trade Agreements in Developing Countries – Lessons for Rule Design
Chauffour, Jean-Pierre - 2013
The latest generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) features a diversity of ‘deep integration' provisions, which mandate a wide range of border and behind-the-border regulatory and institutional reforms in areas such as food safety and technical standards, customs administration,...
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Why China Wants to Join the WTO?
Lemoine, Françoise - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2000) 189
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Lessons of the 1999 Abolition of intra-EU duty free sales for Eastern European EU candidates
Gebauer, Andrea; Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2002
At the end of June 1999 the intra-EU duty free shopping was abolished among the fifteen member nations. The opponents … of this resolution argued that such a tax-free sales sector created jobs EU-wide and hardly reduced the value added and … the travel fare within the EU but also could be characterised as a supplement to the normal retail trade for some products …
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International trade and financial integration: A weighted network analysis
Fagiolo, Giorgio; Reyes, Javier; Schiavo, Stefano - 2007
In this paper we compare the patterns of trade and financial integration by exploiting network analysis. Our results show that, by combining binary and weighted network analysis, it is possible to deliver more precise and thorough insights on the topological structure and properties of the...
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Trade Orientation in the EU in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
Spiridon, Cristian - In: CES Working Papers 6 (2014) 4, pp. 136-143
The present paper aims to analyze the impact the economic crisis bursted out in the United States at the end of 2007 and quasi spreaded all over the world had on the (re) orientation of trade flows (exports) among European Union member states in general, and Romania in particular. As observation...
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Trade, Reallocations and Productivity: A Bridge between Theory and Data in Öresund
Åkerman, Anders - 2009
The paper estimates the causal effect of trade liberalisation on aggregate productivity through mechanisms related to firm selection. The construction of a bridge in 2000 across the Öresund Strait linking Copenhagen with Malmö, Sweden's third largest city, provided a natural experiment with...
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Quality and the great trade collapse
Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 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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