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Food safety standards, compliance and European Union's rejection of African exports : the role of domestic factors
Kareem, Fatima Olanike; Brümmer, Bernhard; … - 2015
This paper investigates the causes of rejections of African exports at the EU border as a barrier in accessing EU markets. Our results indicate that natural geographical hurdle, poor trade-related infrastructure, inefficient border procedure and a lack of technical personnel increase the...
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Globalization and the markups of European firms
Békés, Gábor; Hornok, Cecília; Muraközy, Balázs - 2016
We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The main results are: (i) Exporting is positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514354
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Globalization and the markups of European firms
Békés, Gábor; Hornok, Cecília; Muraközy, Balázs - 2016
We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The main results are: (i) Exporting is positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538046
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Firm age and the margins of international trade : comparable evidence from five European countries
Wagner, Joachim - 2014 - This version: September 23, 2014
, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export …, the share of exports in total sales, the number of countries exported to, and the participation in import. The big picture … revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010407189
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Impact of European food safety border inspections on agri-food exports : evidence from Chinese firms
Beestermöller, Matthias; Disdier, Anne-Célia; … - 2016
. We combine information on rejections with Chinese firm-level export data. Border rejections amplify the turnover among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447532
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The Role of Price and Cost Competitiveness for Intra- and Extra-Euro Area Trade of Euro Area Countries
Bobeica, Elena - 2016
This paper studies the importance of price and cost competitiveness for intra- and extra-euro area trade flows of euro area countries. A standard error correction framework shows that price competitiveness is a relatively more important driver of trade flows outside the euro area as compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984573
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Cost and Price Competitiveness in External Rebalancing of Euro Area Countries : What Do Alternative HCIs Tell Us?
Christodoulopoulou, Styliani - 2014
This study examines the marginal effects of traditional determinants of exports and imports with a focus on the role of price competitiveness in restoring external balances. It is a first attempt to compare marginal effects of various harmonised competitiveness indicators (HCIs) on both exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047096
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Eliminating Excessive Tariffs on Exports of Least Developed Countries
Hoekman, Bernard - 2016
commodities are over 100 percent. Such tariff peaks are often concentrated in products developing countries want to export … the group to analyze impediments to developing country export growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748695
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Eliminating Excessive Tariffs on Exports of Least Developed Countries
Hoekman, Bernard - 2014
Although average OECD tariffs on imports from the least developed countries are very low; tariffs above 15 percent (peaks) have a disproportional effect on their exports. Products subject to tariff peaks tend to be heavily concentrated in agriculture and food products and labor-intensive...
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Is there a difference? : exchange rate nonlinearities in European agri-food (versus total) exports to the US
Fedoseeva, Svetlana - 2014
Each time the Euro starts appreciating, a discussion on how painful this might hit European exporters arises in media, making politician and economists work out the ways to mitigate possible shocks. Still, in his recent study, Verheyen (2013a) using aggregated European exports to the US as an...
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