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The COVID-19 Pandemic and European Trade Flows : Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

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Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks and Jobs : An Application to Brexit

Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019

We develop a network trade model with country-sector level input-output linkages. It includes (1) domestic and global value chain linkages between all country-sectors, (2) direct as well as indirect shipments (via other sectors and countries) to a final destination, (3) value added rather than...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and European Trade Patterns : A Sectoral Analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2022

This paper examines how the Covid-19 pandemic affected European trade patterns. Specifically, dynamic panel data models are estimated to assess the effects on exports and imports of various sectors and products (selected on the basis of their trading volume or strategic importance) of the...

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China's Overinvestment and International Trade Conflict

Schnabl, Gunther - 2019

For a long time, China's impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based on the recent discussion on possible overcapacities and overinvestment in China, the paper investigates the sustainability of China's investment- and export-driven growth...

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Arming in the Global Economy : The Importance of Trade with Enemies and Friends

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin - 2019

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one’s incentive to arm given the opponent’s...

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Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2019

countries. The illusion of sustained African apparel exports is created by late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting boom …-bust patterns in Southern Africa and insignificant responses in Central and West Africa. Firm-level customs data reveal that even in … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019

Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa’s interior …

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