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    • openAccess   Does the designation of least developed country status promote exports? 

      Klasen, Stephan; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Bruckner, Matthias Routledge (2020-10-11)
      In this paper we examine to what extent developing countries export more as a result of having the official Least Developed Country (LDC) status. We estimate a gravity model of trade over the period 1973–2013, in which ...
    • openAccess   Gravity with unemployment 

      Heid, Benedikt Sebastian; Larch, Mario Elsevier (2016-05-10)
      Quantifying the welfare effects of trade liberalization is a core issue in international trade. Existing frameworks assume perfect labor markets and therefore ignore the effects of aggregate employment changes for welfare. ...
    • closedAccess   Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia 

      Kruse, Hendrik Wiard; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Baghdadi, Leila Elsevier (2021-08-17)
      In this paper we investigate whether trade liberalization leads to more stringent product standards in a developing country context, uncovering the role that the connected firms’ market share plays in markets dominated by ...