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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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The euro’s trade effects

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2006

This paper reviews reassesses the methodology and principal findings of the “Rose effect”, i.e. the trade effects of currency union, looking at both EMU and non-EMU currency unions. The consensus estimate suggests that the euro has already boosted intra-euro area trade by five to ten...

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Panel Export Taxes (PET) dataset: New data on export tax rates

Solleder, Olga - 2013

This paper describes a newly collected dataset on export tax rates, which provides comprehensive coverage for 20 countries, 2 time periods and all products at HS6 level. Export tax rates are based on national government documentation, including preferential provisions for partner countries. The...

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Trade effects of export taxes

Solleder, Olga - 2013

distortionary trade effects of export taxes. The results, which are based on theory-consistent estimation of a structural gravity … and importers and that export taxes play a role in the rise of world prices. …

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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

To serve foreign markets, firms can either export or set up a local subsidiary through horizontal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between countries is large, while exports become more important...

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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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Trade costs, trade balances and current accounts : an application of gravity to multilateral trade

Fazio, Giorgio; MacDonald, Ronald; Melitz, Jacques - 2005

In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...

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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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The determinants of cross-border bank flows to emerging markets: New empirical evidence on the spread of financial crises

Herrmann, Sabine; Mihaljek, Dubravko - 2010

and identifies specific channels through which such effects occur. Based on a gravity model we examine a panel data set on …

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