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“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
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. This paper provides a detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on which type of … trade impact of those measures that were imposed during the Great Recession, using monthly data on exports from China to … India. The use of monthly data is relatively new to the literature and allows a detailed examination of the trade impact of …
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. This paper provides a detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on which type of … trade impact of those measures that were imposed during the Great Recession, using monthly data on exports from China to … India. The use of monthly data is relatively new to the literature and allows a detailed examination of the trade impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272505
Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade … policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices … preconditions for implementing “selective” (targeted) trade and industrial policies. Yet more, he discusses the implications of the …
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Recent studies in general are positive regarding the effectiveness of US counterinsurgency programs in Iraq. The right mix of coercion, ethnic strategy, and public goods provision, it is argued, makes Iraqis less likely to rebel against the US army and the Iraqi government, thus reducing...
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Many historians argue that the main goal of European trade integration was the preservation of peace. This paper … investigates whether this reasoning is relevant for the EU and other regional trade agreements (RTAs). I provide empirical evidence … trade agreements (shallow RTAs) however have no effect on war probabilities. Accordingly, international insecurity has a …
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have argued that trade makes war less likely, yet World War I erupted at a time of unprecedented globalization. This paper … develops a theoretical model of the relationship between trade and war which can help to explain both these observations …
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This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between civil wars and international trade. We first show that trade … presence of two effects that trade can have on the risk of civil conflicts: it may act as a deterrent if trade gains are put at … risk during civil wars but it may also act as an insurance if international trade provides a substitute to internal trade …
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The economic and the military developments that have characterized the Chinese economy in recent decades have caused Beijing to take steps to ensure the provision of strategic resources necessary for the continued economic growth and consolidation of China`s position and prestige in Central Asia...
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gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one … hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … openness. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the standards of work tend to trade more with no …
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