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Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed significant new developments, both on the theoretical...
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well as the level of openness across ECOWAS. The panel dataset consists of bilateral flows of export from 15 ECOWAS … countries for the period of 1983–2013, the cointegration method was used for estimation under the gravity model. Comparing the …
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We present a novel two-stage gravity specification with period-varying bilateral trade cost terms. We test our specification to confirm the benchmark result on declining international distance elasticities over time, using two new data sets. Analyzing period-varying bilateral trade cost derived...
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The results generally confirm that Czech trade is oriented towards European countries and determined primarily by key economic factors of domestic and foreign GDP. The institutional variables remain largely insignificant, except corruption due tothe counterintuitive result that a higher...
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When analyzing panel data using regression models, it is often reasonable to allow for time-varying covariate effects. We propose a novel approach to modelling timevarying coefficients in panel data regressions, which is based on penalized regression techniques. To illustrate the usefulness of...
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in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and … capital- and technology-intensive exports. …
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in China’s trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and … capital- and technology-intensive exports. …
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