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The aim of the present work is to test empirically the feasibility of the broad expectations regarding the effects of ENP on the EU-MED economic partnership. More specifically, it presents firstly a gravity analysis of the patterns of trade in the EU-MED area to test the actual dimension of...
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This paper estimates for 28 product groups a characteristic parameter that reflects the topological structure of its trading network. Using these estimates, it then describes how the structure of international trade has evolved during the 1980-2000 period. Thereafter, it demonstrates the...
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The declared objective of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to promote free trade between member states. Nonetheless, an exhaustive study of bilateral merchandise trade based on a large panel data set led Rose (2004) to conclude that...
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This paper shows that the Poisson quasi-maximum likelihood estimator applied to the gravity model produces estimates in which, summing across all partners, actual and estimated total trade flows are identical. Other methods such as OLS do not have this desirable property. Indeed, Poisson is the...
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gravity model developed in this study analyses the effect of GDP, distance,remittances, FDI, transportation cost, exchange … transportation cost, distance, Tariff imposed by trading partner, FDI and Population of trading country are the determinants and … significantly affect exports of developing economies. The study also ascertain that transportation cost, distance, population of …
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This research will analyze the effects of the similarities in economic size and institutional level on bilateral trade. It is interested whether similarities at the country size and institutional level encourage international trade between countries. Using panel data of the bilateral trade of...
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product and a distance of importing countries. The model is examined by a linear regression with corrected heteroscedasticity …
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The results of this study for the 50 states imply that considerations of distance play an important role in the … migration decision of blacks, with the distance variable being statistically significant at the five percent level or better in …
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Long distance coach services in Italy represent an almost unknown mode of transport to the general public, often … specifically focused on long distance coach transport in Italy, carried out by the authors (Beria et al., 2012). We provide policy … the European air industry after the liberalisation of the 90’s. We developed a geographical database of the long distance …
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This paper explores the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders on international and … distance effects increase over time for the same-age citations. This increasing effect of borders and distance is associated … with strengthened knowledge agglomeration over time. Nevertheless, both border and distance effects decrease with the age …
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