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Trade finance shortfalls now appear regularly. Does this matter for trade expansion and economic development in developing countries? Global trade finance has resumed following the 2009 global financial crisis. However, the pattern of recovery has been uneven across countries and categories of...
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This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within-country-time variation only (e.g., regional variation...
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We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the...
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We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new dataset that tracks patents within and between countries...
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manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …
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This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP … trade prior to the crisis are hit by the recession earlier than other products. -- China ; exports collapse ; speed …
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American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the …
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analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization …
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Using annual data for the period 1992 - 2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners … in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and … fixed effect vector decomposition (FEVD) technique. The findings confirm the significant change in China's trading structure …
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manufacturing capital stock is accounted for. Thus, the China-US trade balance should respond to real exchange rate and relative …
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