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Who Is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms

Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023

and performance of German firms. More specifically, we study the sanctions imposed by the EU against Russia in 2014 in … dependent on Russia as an export market and those directly affected by the sanctions. …In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …

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Economic Sanctions and Trade Flows in the Neighbourhood

Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Nistico, Roberto - 2023

We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states …. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic … costs as sanctions disrupt trade. Yet, case studies uncover heterogeneity in countries' responses, with some cases …

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Retaliation Against Trump's Trade War: Why and How the EU Should Find Alternative Export Markets

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2025

In retaliating against Trump's March 2025 imposition of import tariffs on EU aluminum and steel, the EU's response should be twofold: one, at the EU level, to apply retaliatory tariffs and negotiations, and two, to support country-level efforts to minimize the impact of tariffs, including...

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Export-Led Growth after COVID-19: The Case of Portugal

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify...

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Mending the Gap: Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo Medeiros, Diego - 2022

Are the wage gains from exports specific to exporting industries, or do they dissipate throughout the economy? In the language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th...

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Exports to Improve Women's Economic Opportunities in Morocco

Roche Rodriguez, Jaime Alfonso; Robertson, Raymond; … - 2023

Morocco's trade liberalization policies coincided with macroeconomic growth over the past two decades. The relationship between trade liberalization and individual-level labor-market outcomes, however, are not well understood. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques,...

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Re-Assessing the Impacts of Exports on Local Labour Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective. Evidence from Egypt

Tillian, Pablo; Kokas, Deeksha; Góes, Carlos; … - 2023

This paper examines the overall impact of exports while accounting for supply chain linkages on local labor market outcomes in Egypt between 2007 and 2018. We assess the effects not only on directly exporting industries but also on industries indirectly affected by rising export demand....

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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...

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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?

Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2014

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...

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