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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union

Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...

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Tear down this wall : on the persistence of borders in trade

Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009

Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The … effects literatures. Our estimation results show a remarkable persistence in intra-German trade patterns along the former East …

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Subnational income growth and international border effects

Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Stadelmann, David - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational (i.e. regional) growth. We construct an extensive panel dataset covering 1,350 regions in 86 countries worldwide between 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international...

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Border effects without borders : what divides Japan's Internal Trade?

Wrona, Jens - 2018

This paper identifies a "border" effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between East- and West-Japan is 23.1 to 51.3 percent lower than trade within both country parts, is established despite the absence of an obvious east-west division due to historical borders, cultural...

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Is the international border effect larger than the domestic border effect? : evidence from U.S. trade

Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Novy, Dennis - 2009

Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders compare to domestic border barriers? We investigate international and domestic border barriers in a unified framework. We consider a unique data set of exports from individual...

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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The effects of transit systems on international trade

Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro G.; Schaur, Georg - 2021 - This version: October 2021

$ 3-to-1. The estimation results also suggest that existing frameworks that emphasize shipping frequency and the formation …

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Trade flows and trade specialisation : the case of China

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria; Sova, Robert - 2015

in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and …

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Currency unions, trade, and heterogeneity

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2018

How do trade costs affect international trade? This paper offers a new approach. We rely on a flexible gravity equation that predicts variable trade cost elasticities, both across and within country pairs. We apply this framework to the effect of currency unions on international trade. While we...

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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions

Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004

The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...

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