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Parallel Integration and ASEAN-EU Trade Potential: an Empirical Analysis
A Salim, Ruhul; Kabir, Shahriar - In: Journal of Economic Integration 26 (2011), pp. 601-623
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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Can Gravity Model Explain BIMSTEC’s Trade?
Kabir, Mahfuz; Salim, Ruhul - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 144-166
Cooperation (BIMSTEC) by employing an augmented gravity model. The econometric specification followed Egger (2000, 2002), Baltagi … trade policies are liberalised within the bloc. Thus, gravity model can successfully explain the pattern of the bloc’s trade. …
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Bridging Iranian Exporters with Foreign Markets : Does Diaspora Matter?
Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim; Mirjalili, Seyed Hossein - In: Journal of Economic Integration 31 (2016) 3, pp. 609-630
After matching a rich micro-level Iranian customs dataset with a macro-level cross-country database on Iranian diaspora stocks, we establish that diaspora matters for dynamics of Iranian exporters. We document the extent to which Iranian emigrants foster exports through both intensive and...
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Saving Multilateralism in a higgledy-piggledy Trading System
Jovanović, Miroslav N.; Damnjanović, Jelena - In: Journal of Economic Integration 30 (2015), pp. 29-65
Whether international economic integration arrangements result in a more liberal trade at the multilateral level cannot be proven with ease. Integration may start this process, but it may also reverse it. New mega-integration deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Regional Comprehensive...
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Comparative Advantage, Complementarity, Market Diversification and Trade Instability : A Case Study of Pakistan
M. Aslam, Chaudhary - In: Journal of Economic Integration 16 (2001), pp. 568-589
In this paper pattern of Pakistan's exports, comparative advantage of exports, Complementarity and commodity concentration of exports and export instability of Pakistan are analyzed. The mismatch between Pakistan's exports and world imports in also identified. Different indices have been...
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Developing Countries as Exporters of Services: What Trade Statistics Suggest
Langhammer, Rolf J. - In: Journal of Economic Integration 17 (2002), pp. 297-310
The paper departs from the perception that trade in services in general and developing countries' exports in services in particular are dynamic segments of world trade. Both total trade data as well as US import trade figures do not support this perception. Success episodes such as the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840688
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Monetary Spillovers and Endogenous Comparative Advantage in an Unionized Two-Country World
T. Owyong, David - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 96-113
There are many papers written on how price and wage rigidity can cause monetary policy to generate real effects on the economy. In those that incorporate open-economy considerations, monetary changes in one country also has an impact on other economies. In this paper, an attempt is made to add...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840691
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Does Relative Location Matter for Bilateral Trade Flows? An Extension of the Gravity Model
K. Smarzynska, Beata - In: Journal of Economic Integration 16 (2001), pp. 379-398
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 when the gravity equation is estimated using the intra-OECD trade flows. The …
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Devaluation and Competitiveness: Evidence from the Tea and Cotton Textiles Industries
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - In: Journal of Economic Integration 12 (1997), pp. 113-130
This paper measures the effect of currency rate changes on the competitive - ness of India’s main export industries, Tea and Cotton Textiles. In contrast to the conventional approach that uses data from commodity markets, the present study is based on data from stock markets. The analysis is...
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Exchange Rate Devaluation and Reshuffling of Global Jobs
Macedoni, Luca; Sdogati, Fabio - In: Journal of Economic Integration 28 (2013), pp. 241-268
Current debates presume that devaluation of one country’s currency may transfer the production of imported intermediate goods to the devaluating country. This paper argues that in a global production network involving more than two countries in the production of fragments, this presumption may...
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