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The Trade-Off between Foreign Direct Investments and Exports: The Role of Multiple Dimensions of Distance

Lankhuizen, Maureen; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Linders, … - 2009

Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between …

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Intangible Barriers to International Trade: A Sectoral Approach

Möhlmann, Jan; Ederveen, Sjef; de Groot, Henri L.F.; … - 2009

This paper studies the importance of intangible barriers to trade in explaining variation in disaggregate international trade. The analysis is based on a sample of 55 countries for the year 2000. We explicitly focus on the importance of institutional and cultural dimensions of distance. Our...

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India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms' Decision to Export

Srinivasan, T. N.; Archana, Vani - 2009

) with its trading partners around the world and to examine the impact of various PTAs in which India or its trading partner … the world relatively few firms participate in world trade, thus suggesting that characteristics of a firm (such as its … size and productivity) are relevant besides country level barriers on trade matter for participation in world trade. This …

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Volume and comparative advantage in East-West trade

Trübswetter, Parvati; Schumacher, Dieter - 2000

level of product groups is used, combining geography and factor-proportions theory of international trade. It is shown that …

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Market Size and Factor Endowment: Explaining Comparative Advantage in Bilateral Trade by Differences in Income and Per Capita Income

Schumacher, Dieter - 2001

Using a gravity-type explanation of international trade flows at the industry level, it is shown that the pattern of comparative advantage in terms of sectoral export/import ratios in bilateral trade can be explained by relative income and relative per capita income. Total income of a country is...

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a ?cornersolutions- version? of the gravity model to …

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Multilateralism versus Regionalism!?

Herz, Bernhard; Wagner, Marco - 2010

in recent years. Based on an extensive data set which covers most of world trade over the past 60 years and about 240 …

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Home Market and Traditional Effects on Comparative Advantage in a Gravity Approach

Schumacher, Dieter - 2003

Policy makers in "small" countries facing trade liberalisation have become concerned with the potential loss of manufacturing employment and output to "large" economies in the presence of economies of scale in production and international transport costs. This paper offers a methodology to...

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Preference erosion: The case of Bangladesh. A SUR-EC-AR gravity model of trade

Grossrieder, Erika Vianna - 2007

This paper analyses the impact of preference erosion on Bangladesh's clothing industry coming from both the ATC quotas phasing-out and the reduction on MFN tariffs under NAMA negotiations. First, it undertakes a numerical exercise to estimate the effects of tariffs reduction in the US and the EU...

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Institutions, infrastructure, and trade

Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007

We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where...

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