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The main purpose of this paper is to examine the international competitiveness of the Turkish economy and the structure of specialisation in foreign trade in comparison with the five EU candidate countries - Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Rumania, Poland - and the EU/15. This research...
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We propose an analysis for the largest euro-area countries (France, Germany, Italy and Spain), based on the framework developed by Koopman et al. (2014) for tracing value added in a country's exports by source and use. We integrate their approach by introducing an additional dimension: the...
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The paper discusses similarities and differences between past EU binding internal liberalization "across the board" in the industrial sector and present so-called voluntary sectoral liberalization of member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). While both approaches are...
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Intra-industry-trade (IIT) demonstrates the degrees of integration of an economy with the world and the status of that economy within the global value chain. This paper compared the IIT data of Korea and selected MENA countries. The Grubel and Lloyd index was calculated using the COMTRADE data...
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Perfect integration eludes the real world, so we suggest a realistic benchmark standard for judging the extent of market integration in various economies. We estimate the degree of integration in the US product market, widely acknowledged to be the most integrated among geographically large...
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The deepening US-China trade war and two new megaregional trade agreements, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), are reshaping the landscape of East Asian trade. The CPTPP and RCEP are moving...
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The post WTO world trading system is witnessing proliferation of large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs). Regionalism versus Multilateralism debate is not resolved decisively as there are divergent views on the methodology of trade liberalization. The slow pace of multilateral...
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as well as their export markets. Our research found that EaP countries didn’t use enough the benefits of bilateral and …
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The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
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