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Measuring aggregate trade costs and its empirical effects on manufacturing export composition in China

Xu, Tongsheng; Liang, Xiao - In: China Finance and Economic Review 5 (2017) 6, pp. 1-18

Background: This paper measures the aggregate trade costs from 2000 to 2013, and dicusses the impact of China …'s aggregate trade costs on comparative advantages and export share of 17 two-digit ISIC manufacturing industries. Methods: This … aggregate trade costs with the export shares. Results: We find that China's aggregate trade costs are declining, but it is still …

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Measuring aggregate trade costs and its empirical effects on manufacturing export composition in China

Xu, Tongsheng; Liang, Xiao - In: China finance and economic review : CFER 5 (2017) 6, pp. 1-18

Background: This paper measures the aggregate trade costs from 2000 to 2013, and dicusses the impact of China …’s aggregate trade costs on comparative advantages and export share of 17 two-digit ISIC manufacturing industries. Methods: This … aggregate trade costs with the export shares. Results: We find that China’s aggregate trade costs are declining, but it is still …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664453

Two centuries of bilateral trade and Gravity Data : 1827-2014

Fouquin, Michel; Hugot, Jules - 2016

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Demand Spillovers and the Collapse of Trade in the Global Recession

Yi, Kei-Mu; Bems, Rudolfs; Johnson, Robert C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper uses a global input-output framework to quantify US and EU demand spillovers and the elasticity of world trade to GDP during the global recession of 2008-2009. We find that 20-30 percent of the decline in the US and EU demand was borne by foreign countries, with NAFTA, Emerging...

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Hong Kong SAR Economic Integration with the Pearl River Delta

Unteroberdoerster, Olaf; Chen, Hongyi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Hong Kong SAR's economic integration with the Mainland has primarily taken place in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Taking stock of integration trends, this paper discusses key implications for ensuring economic benefits of further integration are sustained and associated costs minimized. Besides...

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The Shifting Structure of China's Trade and Production

Cui, Li; Syed, Murtaza H. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper uses disaggregated trade data to assess how the expansion of China's production capacity and its changing production structure may be affecting its trade linkages with other countries. It finds that China is moving away from traditional assembly operations in its processing activities...

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The Exchange Rate Pass -Through to Import and Export Prices; The Role of Nominal Rigidities and Currency Choice

Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Hakura, Dalia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Using both regression- and VAR-based estimates, the paper finds that the exchange rate pass-through to import prices for a large number of countries is incomplete and larger than the pass-through to export prices. Previous studies have reported similar results, which give rise to the puzzle that...

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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity

Behar, Alberto; Nelson, Benjamin D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selection into trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity form, such that the extensive margin is also affected by...

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Is the "Houthakker-Magee" Finding Durable? Evidence from Disaggregated Trade Flows between China and Korea

Kang, Kichun - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 13 (2012) 2, pp. 299-316

Using income growth to explain trade flows has a long history in international trade. This paper examines the income elasticities for the categories of goods to be consistent with the theoretical implications, using the trade flows between China and Korea over the sample period of 1991-2008. The...

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Economic Integration, Business Cycle, and Productivity in North America

Kose, M. Ayhan; Cardarelli, Roberto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper examines the effect of the major Canada-U.S. trade agreements on the dynamics of business cycles and productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA), have led to a substantial expansion of trade...

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