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The German economy and EU industrial tariff reductions : partial and CGE analyses of a stillborn Millennium Round

Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000

The Millennium Round of MTNs, which was stillborn in Seattle, was supposed to have initiated wide-sweeping changes to the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been forthcoming from proposed liberalization strategies. It...

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WTO negotiations and accession issues for vulnerable economies

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Lücke, Matthias - 2000

they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it … easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and actively participate in the WTO. The main conclusion is that the benefits … from WTO membership in terms of improved market access for traditional exports are likely to be limited. However, by …

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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020

equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 … countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is … general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO on welfare, which are sizable and heterogeneous across members, and relatively small …

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Accession incentives for institutional change in post-socialist countries : cross-section and country evidence from NATO enlargement

Schweickert, Rainer; Melnykovska, Inna; Heitmann, Hanno - 2010

This paper analyses the transformative power of NATO accession that gains in importance due to the enlargement fatigue of the EU, the EU’s rather weak neighbourhood incentives and the increasing importance of regional security as an incentive for compliance with the institutional standards of...

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Beyond security, towards institution building : the case of NATO-Macedonia relations

Schweickert, Rainer; Melnykovska, Inna; Heitmann, Hanno - 2012

The effectiveness of NATO conditionality for institutional reforms is highly controversial. Some papers argue that any effect this conditionality might have had may be due to endogeneity effects, i.e. NATO may have picked the winners. We argue that this is not the case. First, NATO-Mazedonia...

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Can aid buy foreign public support? : evidence from Chinese development finance

Wellner, Lukas; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2022

Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...

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Mask wars : China's exports of medical goods in times of COVID-19

Fuchs, Andreas; Kaplan, Lennart; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak has cut China's supply of and raised the world's demand for face masks, disinfectants, ventilators, and other critical medical goods. This article studies the economic and political factors that are associated with China's exports of medical equipment during the first two...

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Does private aid follow the flag? : an empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance

Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2019 - This version: April 2019

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database...

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Does India use development finance to compete with China? : a subnational analysis

Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2021

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...

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Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals : evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake

Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Kunze, Sven; Strobl, Eric - 2019 - This version: February 2019

We examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in response to the destructive 2015 Nepal earthquake. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which the allocation of this humanitarian assistance follows...

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