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Trade policy and input liberalization: The effect on Egyptian firms’ productivity
(Wiley, 2021-05-14)
This paper explores the link between trade liberalization and firms’ performance in Egypt combining macro and micro data. Using the Economic Census of Egypt 2013, we examine the association between tariffs and non-tariffs ...
Protecting health or protecting imports? Evidence from EU non-tariff measures
(Elsevier, 2018-01)
Non-tariff measures such as food safety standards are aimed at protecting consumers' health but may also be used as protectionism tool to limit imports. This study investigates the protectionist intent of EU food safety ...
Effects of Foreign Aid on Income through International Trade
(Cogitatio Press, 2019)
This article presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results
obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international ...
Does the designation of least developed country status promote exports?
(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 ...
3D printing, international trade, and FDI
(Elsevier, 2020-02)
We analyze the relationship between 3D printing, the volume of trade and the structure of foreign
direct investment (FDI). A novel framework with rm-speci c heterogeneity and 3D printing generates three
predictions. ...
Exports and governance: Is the Middle East and North Africa region different?
(Wiley, 2018)
This paper aims to analyse whether a higher quality of economic governance rewards economic performance and facilitates the integration of the Middle East and North Africa region into the world economy. A gravity model of ...
What Explains Indirect Exports of Goods and Services in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
(Springer, 2018-05)
This paper investigates the determinants of indirect exporting, using firm-
level data for 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Indirect exporting
depends on a combination of fixed and variable trade cost ...
Flujos de remesas y COVID-19 en países de América Latina. Reflexiones al inicio de la pandemia
(Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, 2020-10)
Las remesas que los inmigrantes envían a su país de origen contribuyen a alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), permitiendo que muchas familias salgan de la pobreza.
Dichos envíos han disminuido en la ...
The Trade-off Between Income Inequality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions
(Elsevier, 2017-12)
Based on a substantially larger data set (in both regional and temporal coverage) than the
existing literature, we investigate the theoretically ambiguous link between income inequality
and per capita emissions using ...
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 ...