Search Results - subject:"TRADE INTEGRATION"

From curse to blessing : a fourier-augmented ARDL analysis of agriculture, geopolitics, and trade in south and central Asia

Nazir, Sidra - In: Letters in spatial and resource sciences : LSRS 17 (2024) 1, pp. 1-12

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Examining the impact of intra-industry trade on business cycle alignment within the ECOWAS

Diendere, Louis-Joel Basneouinde; Diendere, Achille Augustin - In: International Journal of Development Issues 23 (2024) 3, pp. 489-511

Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of intra-industry trade on business cycle synchronization within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ECOWAS region is characterized by limited intracommunity trade and a low level of foreign direct investment....

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The WTO Global Trade Costs Index and its determinants

Rubínová, Stela; Sebti, Mehdi - 2021

This study provides a decomposition of the WTO Global Trade Costs Index into five policy-relevant components: transport and travel costs; information and transaction costs; ICT connectedness; trade policy and regulatorydifferences; and governance quality. The WTO Global Trade CostsIndex is based...

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East Asian trade integration in the era of global value chains: Prospects and challenges

Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2021

This paper examines trade integration of East Asian countries through the lens of global value chains (GVCs). It first …

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Cenários para a redução dos custos de comércio no Mercosul: Efeitos sobre o comércio regional e mercado de trabalho brasileiro

Carneiro, Flávio Lyrio - 2021

We estimate the effects of reductions in trade costs between the four original members of Souther Common Market (Mercado Común del Sur - Mercosur) on regional trade and on the Brazilian labor market, using the model developed by Caliendo, Dvorkin e Parro (2019), which features elements such as...

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Bayesian gravity model for digitalization on bilateral trade integration in Asia

Jayasooriya, S. P. - 2021

. Nevertheless, testing a trade integration model of bilateral trade is not sufficiently well estimated with the Bayesian approach to … provide pragmatic evidence of trade integration from the digitalization in Asia. Moreover, in identifying the factors … determining trade integration, testing for digitization using the Bayesian gravity equation is vital. After performing a series of …

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Trade and market power in product and labor markets

MacKenzie, Gaelan - 2021

This paper studies the effects of endogenous firm-level market power in input and product markets on equilibrium prices and wages as well as the gains from trade using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms. Firm-level prices and wages are functions of two endogenous distortions:...

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Trade Openness and Growth: A Network-Based Approach

Duernecker, Georg; Meyer, Moritz; Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2021

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the study of international trade that leads to a measure of country openness that is quite different from the various alternatives proposed by the received literature. In contrast to these, our measure does not use indicators of aggregate trade...

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Globalisation and the efficiency-equity trade-off

Beck, Roland; Di Nino, Virginia; Stracca, Livio - 2021

We revisit the effects of globalisation over the past 50 years in a large sample of advanced and emerging countries. We use accessions to \Globalisation Clubs" (WTO, OECD, EU), financial liberalisation and an instrument for trade openness to study the trade-off between efficiency (proxied by...

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Tariffs and the exchange rate: Evidence from Twitter

Matveev, Dmitry; Ruge-Murcia, Francisco Javier - 2021

This paper examines the conjecture that an increase in tariffs in a flexible exchange rate regime leads to the appreciation of the local currency. We focus on the reaction of the exchange rate market to tweets by US President Donald Trump regarding possible tariff increases on Canadian and...

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