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Economic impacts of SEZs: Theoretical approaches and analysis of newly notified SEZs in India

Aggarwal, Aradhna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This study aims at examining the economic impacts of SEZs in the Indian context. While doing so, it addresses the conceptual confusion about SEZs, outlines the evolution of SEZs; traces economic philosophies explaining the rationale and benefits of SEZs; extends existing theoretical literature...

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Sectoral and geographical positioning of the EU in the international division of labour

Cheptea, Angela; Gaulier, Guillaume; Sondjo, Dieudonné; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Today’s international trade in goods is driven mainly by the growth of exports and imports of the South. Emerging … demand. Secondly, detailed results on the positioning and the performance of exports on different segments of the world … market are produced. In both cases trade unit-values data is employed to separate the evolution of exports in monetary (value …

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Export performance, competitiveness and commodity composition

Athanasoglou, Panayiotis; Backinezos, Constantina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Market Shares. In addition, the dynamics of the specialization pattern of Greek exports and the effect of price … technological intensity of Greek exports have improved, exports remain concentrated in low- and medium-technology sectors, while …

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Reassessing effective protection rates in a trade in tasks perspective: Evolution of trade policy in "Factory Asia"

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

International trade moved from "trade in goods" to "trade in tasks" and effective protection rates (EPRs) are back to the analytical stage. They measure the overall protection that sectoral value-added is receiving from applied tariffs. The paper calculates sectorial EPRs for 10 Asian-Pacific...

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Exploring the policy dimensions of trade in value-added

Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Global Value Chains are a dominant feature of today’s global economy, yet their empirical analysis is still incipient. Building on a recent OECD-WTO database and the results of an on-going research program at WTO, the present essay contributes at filling this gap, after introducing the main...

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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

With the rise of global value chains, effective protection rates (EPRs) provide important insights on the impact of nominal tariffs on the competitiveness of industries. Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of EPRs in about...

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Trade Protectionism and Intra-industry Trade: A USA - EU Comparison

Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra; Sousa, Cândida; Carvalho, Helena - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The aim of this work is to find patterns for products included in the customs tariffs of the USA and the EU (composed of over 5000 products disaggregated at the 6 digit-level) which share similarities, defined by a set of international trade variables, namely the index of revealed comparative...

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Winners and Losers in a Free Trade Area between the United States and MERCOSUR

Marcel, Vaillant; Alvaro, Ons - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The paper focus on the characteristics of the political economy of an FTA of this kind. With this objective, they develop a methodology that allows them to study the welfare effects of a bilateral agreement by identifying the sectors that would encounter the most problems and those that would be...

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How exporters respond to antidumping investigations?

Lu, Yi; Tao, Zhigang; Zhang, Yan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Using China Customs data that cover monthly transactions of all Chinese exporters, we investigate how Chinese exporters respond to U.S. antidumping investigations during the 2000-2006 period. Our difference-in-differences analysis uncovers a number of findings: (1) the substantial...

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Philippine Export Efficiency and Potential: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model

Deluna, Roperto Jr; Cruz, Edgardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

affected by income and market size of the importing partner. The income elasticity of merchandise exports is 0.69%. A 1 … corruption and freer labor market in the importing country enhances export potential of Philippine merchandise exports …

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