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This paper aims at analyzing how export performance of developing countries differs across destinations. With … application to Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, we first employ a gravity equation to break down each region’s export performance … countries’export performance, both theoretically and empirically. Our contribution is to introduce demand spillovers that help …
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industries. The results show significant potential for future growth in specific export sectors and demonstrate changing trade …
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determinant of differences in export-value growth across individual manufactured products, as well as of the distribution of …
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In the 2001 Doha Development Round ministerial declaration, countries committed themselves “to the objective of duty-free, quota-free market access for products originating from LDCs.” In this light, this paper investigates the current tariff barriers put in place and preferences granted by...
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Recent literature has emphasized the importance of transaction costs and infrastructure in explaining trade, access to markets, and regional cooperation under globalization. For most Asian countries, transaction costs are a greater barrier to trade integration than import tariffs. By estimating...
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We examine how the factors conventionally found important for trade in other regions of the world influence trade in South Asia. Our gravity model starts by estimating the effects of economic variables such as per capita income and the size of economies on bilateral trade. We then use a novel...
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The past two decades have witnessed economic growth differentials among countries in East Asia and Latin America. In this paper we argue that the degree of openness due to government policies in both areas may be an important factor yielding this result. We construct a simple model to highlight...
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This study extends the gravity model to include a new measure of the trading partners’ location relative to other countries. The proposed measure is close in spirit to the theory of gravity, since it is based on the concept of the world trade center. The measure is statistically significant...
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This paper empirically assesses the integration of ASEAN with the European Union (EU) from an ASEAN-European Union trade model, and investigates their untapped trade potential. For the observation period of 1996 to 2008, the ASEANEU trade gap between the potential trade and the actual trade...
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, heteroscedasticity and contemporaneous correlation in both import and export panels, which are allowed for in the Prais- Winsten …. Real depreciation is import-reducing and export enhancing. Common language and bilateral trade agreement are found to be … import and export enhancing, respectively. Governance of both local and destination countries impact trade of the bloc …
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