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Does German Development Aid boost German Exports and German Employment? A Sectoral Level Analysis
(De Gruyter, 2016)
This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the
link between German development aid and sectoral exports from Germany to aid
recipient countries with data from 1978–2011. The findings indicate that ...
The Driving Forces behind China’s Growth
(Wiley, 2010)
The main objective of this paper is to disentangling the determinants of the Chinese economic growth that occurred from 1965 to 2000. We have explored, first, the time series properties of the growth rates of GDP and labour ...
European Union Market Access Conditions and Africa’s Extensive Margin of Food Trade
(Wiley, 2017)
This paper examines the impact of two European Union (EU) market access regulations in the food sector presumed to simultaneously affect firms’ decisions to export food products to the EU. We analysed EU pesticide standards ...
Testing for Periodic Integration with a Changing Mean
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
In this paper we extend the test of periodic integration proposed by Boswijk and Franses (J Time Ser Anal 17:221–245, 1996) allowing for a change in the mean. We provide the asymptotic distribution and show that is the ...
Firm heterogeneity and the market scope of European multinational activity
(Elsevier, 2017-09)
This paper examines the relationship between the characteristics of European firms and the market scope of their international activity. We show, theoretically, that when markets can be served by exports or through foreign ...
Aid and its impact on the donor’s export industry – The Dutch case
(Springer, 2017-08)
This paper models the link between Dutch development aid and Dutch exports to 142 recipient countries over the period from 1964 to 2011. Given that Dutch aid policy drastically changed in 1999, the model is estimated ...
Does Environmetal Policy Stringency Foster Innovation and Productivity in OECD Countries?
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2016)
In this paper we use panel data models and quantile regressions to test the “weak” and “strong”
versions of the Porter hypothesis, using data from 14 OECD countries over the period 1990-2011.
A newly-released environmental ...
Fluctuations of oil prices and gross domestic product in Spain
(EconJournals, 2019-12)
The objective of this research is to analyze the asymmetric impact of crude oil prices on the real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) between
1945 and 2018 in Spain. The decomposition of oil prices into positive and ...
Networks and self-employed migrants
(Springer US, 2017)
This paper examines the immigrant’s decision to become self-employed. Personal characteristics and attitudes are crucial to this decision, but recent literature also highlights the importance of social networks as providers ...
Efectos de las preferencias comerciales en frutas y hortalizas otorgadas a Marruecos por la UE: ¿crean o desvían comercio?
(Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente, 2017)
En este trabajo analizamos el efecto que ejercen las preferencias comerciales garantizadas
a marruecos para cuatro frutas y hortalizas (tomate, pepino, naranja y mandarina) en las exportaciones
mensuales a distintos ...