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A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks

Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...

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Microeconomic flexibility, creative destruction and trade

Blyde, Juan S.; Pineda, José - 2009

We investigate whether greater microeconomic flexibility facilitates the process of creative destruction in the context of new trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003 and Melitz, 2003). In these models, freer trade increases aggregate productivity because high-efficiency...

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Impact of Latin-American and Caribbean antidumping measures on Chinese exports

Zhang, Yan - 2017 - This version: March 2017

This paper uses customs transaction data covering all Chinese exporters and the World Bank's antidumping database to … investigate how they responded to Latin-American and Caribbean (LAC) antidumping measures during 2000-2012 period. The paper uses … extensive margin effect, we still observe a positive number of exporters exited the LAC market after antidumping measures …

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Assessing the future of trade in the automobile sector between India and Pakistan : implications of abolishing the negative list

Nag, Biswajit - 2014

This paper makes an attempt to understand the implications of trade normalisation between India and Pakistan on the automobile sector. Currently, am majority of auto components are in Pakistan's negative list. Based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis, the paper concludes that India...

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India-Pakistan trade : an analysis of the pharmaceutical sector

Pant, Manoj; Pande, Devyani - 2014

With the ongoing trade normalisation process between India and Pakistan, opportunities to integrate have opened up between both countries. The pharmaceutical sector is crucial to health issues in developing economies and would be an ideal segment to focus on in improving trade relations between...

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The border labyrinth : information technologies and trade in the presence of multiple agencies

Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2016 - This version: March 2016

Firms selling products abroad usually have to interact with several border agencies that develop multiple trade regulations and oversee their compliance. These regulations establish the procedures that these firms have to follow and the documents that they have to obtain, fill in, and submit for...

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Customs

Volpe Martincus, Christian; Carballo, Jerónimo; … - 2016

In this paper, we estimate the effects of custom-related delays on firms' exports. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the universe of Uruguay's export transactions over the period 2002-2011 and includes precise information on the actual time it took for each of these...

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Transit trade

Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Graziano, Alejandro; … - 2016 - This version: March 2016

In this paper, we estimate the effects of transit systems that substantially streamline administrative processing of trade flows. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the entire universe of El Salvador's export transactions over the period 2007-2013 and includes information on...

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Endogenous border times

Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2016 - This version: March 2016

We examine transaction-level Peruvian import data to show that firms are subject to significant costs of port-of-entry delays. At the transaction level, we observe the time it takes a shipment to clear each step in the entry process. Our theory shows conditions under which observed entry times...

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Posts as trade facilitators

Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Volpe Martincus, … - 2016 - This version: March 2016

In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involves both a streamlining of export procedures and provision of intermediation services to investigate how firms' react to changing trade costs and whether and how these firms learn. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that...

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