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Economic record of human society in the last period has involved an unprecedented growth of world trade, trafficking of … basic raw materials needed for industry and agriculture, and trade in industrial products or food. To the huge volume of … encouraged by factors such as diversification of trade, number of participants in this process and the increasingly complex …
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The container-shipping industry's poor performance in 2011 and its continued struggles in 2012 are primarily the result of supply and demand imbalance, which triggered intense competition and price wars. Some carriers have begun to recognize the importance of alliances, as reflected by their...
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the effects of capital, labor, digitalization, financial development, natural resources, and trade openness. Utilizing a … roles of capital, labor, financial development, and trade openness in driving economic performance, while digitalization and …
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firm models and to a relation-specific trade model, arguing that the second one seems to fit more naturally all the …
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Policies to stimulate export growth and diversify the composition of exports in South Africa are now high on the government’s agenda. In order to understand exporting and its impact on job creation, one needs to understand how firms function, what determines, or constrains, exporting at the...
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the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) provides a comprehensive assessment of the potential … impacts of trade liberalisation under CETA. The analysis assesses the economic, social and environmental impacts in Canada and … gains in output and trade to be stimulated by services liberalisation and by the removal of tariffs applied on sensitive …
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Looking to understand what drives countries' export growth in practice, I provide a decomposition of world export growth at the product variety level between new destinations, new products, and growth in value of old varieties. New destinations play a significant role, accounting for 37 percent...
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that, despite the dramatic improvement in information and communication technologies, international trade costs for …, our results suggest that the tariff equivalent of international trade costs is between 50% and 60% larger for services …
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service firms in Spain operate only in their local markets, whereas one-third of the examined service firms trade with non …-local areas of Spain, and fewer than 20% of Spanish service firms trade with other nations. Similar to those in the manufacturing … and average wages. Larger premia are observed for firms that trade with more distant markets and for firms that …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between export status and productivity in a major service exporter, Spain, during 2001-2007. I find that exporters in the services sector are 37% more productive than non-exporters. This productivity premium is larger for firms that supply...
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