Search Results - subject:"REGIONAL integration"

The Europe Agreements: Implications for Trade Laws and Institutions. Lessons from Hungary

Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Trade liberalization in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland was accomplished in record time between 1989 and 1991. Sustainability became, however, a major concern in Central and Eastern Europe as the `honeymoon of trade liberalization' ended in 1991/2. The paper examines whether Europe Agreements...

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Trade Policy and Regional Integration: Implications for the Relations between Europe and Africa

Collier, Paul; Toye, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

For Africa, a regional customs union is unlikely to realise net welfare gains (in the sense of trade creation dominating trade diversion) which cannot be attained through unilateral trade liberalization. Unilateral reform has often failed in Africa, however. A regional customs union tied to...

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Industrial Localization. An Empirical Test for Marshallian Localization Economies

Hammond, George; von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper presents empirical tests of the hypothesis that firms cluster geographically due to Marshallian localization economies. The hypothesis implies that changes in employment in localized industries should be more closely related within the regions than across regions. We develop an...

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The Potential for Trade Between the Countries of EFTA and Central and Eastern Europe

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

Recent events, historical evidence and geographical proximity suggest that the six EFTAns and twelve Central and East European countries (CEECs) are natural trading partners. This paper evaluates this suggestion by estimating the potential for EFTA-CEEC trade using the gravity model of Wang and...

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Eastern Germany: Can't We Be More Optimistic?

Burda, Michael C; Funke, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper argues that the application of the `2% rule' to the case of Eastern Germany, which implies convergence in three decades or more, is overly pessimistic. First, it ignores discrete improvements in initial conditions related to the transition, which have been significant to date. Because...

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The New Regionalism: A Country Perspective

de Melo, Jaime; Panagariya, Arvind; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Regional integration is on the rise again, despite its apparent failure among developing countries in the past. The … aspects of regional integration, and point out that integration enforces arbitrage in institutions as well as in markets for … objectives than past efforts. History is therefore a poor guide to the future of regional integration. …

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Formation of geoeconomic area’s innovative approach adaptation

Vladimirovna, Shmeleva Natalia; Vifliemsky, L.V. … - In: Published Papers 2 Issue 2 Year 2012, -, pp. 222-228

Shaped geoeconomic antecedences of Russian world economy system integration. Also the author appointed its reproduction focus - the development of non-primary (innovative) sector of national economy

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La Teoría de la Integración Económica y su aplicación a la experiencia del Mercosur

Grimoldi, Gabriela - Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI)

En el presente trabajo, veremos como a través de la aplicación de la Teoría de la Integración, algunos aspectos de la economía y el comercio a nivelmundial ha cambiado producto de los distintos procesos de integración que han surgidoa lo largo del tiempo; centrándonos particularmente en...

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