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Conceptual aspects of global value chains : World Development Report 2020 background paper

Antràs, Pol - 2020

The paper offers an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). It outlines a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and it traces the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the...

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Trade integration, export patterns, and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César A.; Cantú, Catalina; Zeufack, Albert G. - 2020

This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and …- and intra-regional). Second, it estimates the impact of trade integration on economic growth and its sources, that is …, capital accumulation and total factor productivity growth. The analysis finds causal evidence that trade integration fosters …

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The evolution of deep trade agreements

Mattoo, Aaditya; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2020

This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency,...

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The impact of regional integration on Africa's manufacturing exports

Mukwaya, Rodgers - In: Journal of African Trade 6 (2019) 1/2, pp. 81-87

This paper analyses the impact of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on intraregional manufactured exports in Africa. Using data from 1990 to 2015 for 45 African countries, a structural gravity model was estimated using the Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood estimator that controlled for...

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Reassessing trade barriers with global value chains

Imura, Yuko - 2019

This paper provides a systematic, quantitative analysis of the short-run and long-run effects of various trade-restricting policies in the presence of global value chains and multinational production. Using a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with endogenous firm entry and...

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Geography Matters: Spatial Dimensions of Trade, Migration and Growth

Steinwachs, Thomas - 2019

This volume was prepared by Thomas Steinwachs while he was working at the ifo Center for International Economics. It was completed in September 2018 and accepted as a doctoral dissertation by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU). It is a collection of four self-contained...

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Welfare Gains from the Variety Growth

Kancs, d'Artis; Persyn, Damiaan - 2019

We estimate the variety gains of trade in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania following the fall of the iron curtain more than a quarter of a century ago. We apply the methodology of Feenstra (1994); Broda and Weinstein (2006); Ardelean and Lugovskyy (2010) and Soderbery (2015) to domestic and...

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Trade and capital flows: Substitutes or complements? An empirical investigation

Belke, Ansgar; Domnick, Clemens - 2019

This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements (implying a positive correlation) or as substitutes (negative correlation)? Although a classic topic in international macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained...

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Trade and Capital Flows: Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation

Belke, Ansgar H.; Domnick, Clemens - 2019

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Changing fortunes: Long-termism - G-Zero, artificial intelligence and debt

Poloz, Stephen S. - 2019

This paper looks at the implications for monetary policy of the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which is sometimes called the "fourth industrial revolution". The paper reviews experiences from the previous three industrial revolutions, developing a template...

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