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estimation of trade elasticities. The elasticities we compute depend directly on the specialization of trade across sectors … elasticities for North Macedonia - i.e. trade elasticities relevant to policy - and ultimately to calibration choices. …
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In this paper, I empirically examine the non-monotonic relationship between openness and within-group wage inequality predicted by  Helpman et al. (2010) using a panel data for the US, 1983–2005. Within-group wage inequality is measured for each industry and matched with exports. It can be...
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In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … particular on the question of whether liberalized trade could have been a factor behind the emergence of greater inequalities in …
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domestic profits for a large sample of U.S. manufacturing industries. In our model, trade barriers alter the ability of … domestic market structure to influence domestic performance. The results indicate that trade flows behave as expected in …
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We apply a simple method to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products exported in the clothing sector after the end of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement. Based on the model of Foster et al., (2008), we interpret the change in relative export prices and quantities sold in narrowly...
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In large number of circumstances, trade policy modellers turn to partial equilibrium modelling in an imperfect … substitutes framework. This article develops a formal representation of this imperfect substitutes model and applies it to trade … these results within the history of Pakistan–India trade and the political economy of the negative list. …
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trade. We find that when our model is parameterized to match salient features of the data on international trade and market … international trade costs and various features of market structure. (JEL F12, F14, F31) …
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We evaluate two alternative models of international trade in differentiated products. An increasing returns model where …
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This paper focuses on finding out the leading sectors with high potential to maintain and consolidate the comparative and competitive advantages of the Romania’s exports and analyses the change in the pattern of Romanian export specialisation by estimatin
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According to the conventional home-market effect, free trade tends to shrink the market share for a small economy in … level of each firm, and an indirect effect through a change of survival firms after trade. Based on theoretical results we …
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