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Accumulating Trade Costs and Competitiveness in Global Value Chains

Diakantoni, Antonia - 2017

Trade costs such as applied tariffs, transportation and insurance costs are amplified as they pass through the multiple production steps associated with modern supply chains. This so called "cascade effect" arises since trade costs accumulate as intermediate goods are imported and then...

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Accumulating trade costs and competitiveness in global value chains

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert; Roberts, Michael; … - 2017 - Manuscript date: January 2017

Trade costs such as applied tariffs, transportation and insurance costs are amplified as they pass through the multiple production steps associated with modern supply chains. This so-called "cascade effect" arises since trade costs accumulate as intermediate goods are imported and then...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594191

Revealed Comparative Advantage : An Analysis of Exports of Rwanda

Gupta, Mayank; Kumar, Harish - 2017

The paper undertakes a detailed analysis of Revealed Comparative Advantage of the exports of Rwanda. The objective of … composition of exports. The Standard Balassa Revealed Comparative Advantage Index (BRCAI) has been used for analysis. Rwanda RCAI … in its otherwise primary exports product lines has been declining owing to increasing pressure from the supply side …

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Export Competitiveness of Botswana's Beef Industry

Seleka, Tebogo Bruce - 2016

We investigate Botswana's beef export competitiveness using indices of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and data for the period 1961-2011. Results indicate that Botswana has been the most competitive SADC beef exporter, and that it has compared well with the leading world beef exporters....

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Abenomics' trade spillover

Ferrarini, Benno - 2013

the yen lowers average exports by more than 3%, which is a sizeable pass through. Elsewhere, the impact is negligible …

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Export Competitiveness and Trade Agreements : Analysis and Insights from Israel's Experience

Ronen, Eyal - 2018

-intensified exports. However, Israel's strong export competitiveness also derives from proliferating free trade agreements (FTAs) with its …

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Product diversification and export performance : a comparative study of developing Asian countries

Alongkorn Tanasritunyakul - In: Thailand and the world economy 40 (2022) 1, pp. 17-38

methodology involves estimating export equations for total non-oil exports and product subcategories. Commodity diversification is … statistically significant impact on export performance. This relationship holds for total non-oil exports and the major exports … focused on aggregate exports. Supply-side factors appear to be more important than external demand in explaining inter …

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The role of product deepening, emergence, and failure in export performance : a comparative study of developing Asian countries

Tanasritunyakul, Alongkorn - In: Thailand and the world economy 40 (2022) 2, pp. 73-101

This study explores the contribution of the deepening of existing products (intensive margin), the emergence of new products (extensive margin), and the demise of existing products (failure margin) to the export expansion of developing Asian countries in 1990-2017. Using data based on the...

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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 31 October 2014

Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of effective protection in about 50 developed and developing countries from 1995 to 2008. The paper reviews also the role of preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the...

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Economic Linkages and Comparative Advantage of the UK Creative Sector

Ye, Zhen (Peter); Yin, Ya Ping - 2012

This paper adopts the industrial capabilities argument and the concept of revealed comparative advantage as the basis for evaluating the competitiveness of the UK creative industries in sustaining export growth. The empirical results have revealed a heterogeneous nature of the economic linkages...

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