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Are fiscal rules helpful in mitigating the impact of oil market fluctuations?
In this paper we empirically examined the role of fiscal rules in mitigating the impact of oil market fluctuations in resource-rich economies using a structural panel VAR framework following P. Pedroni (2013) and incorporating identification scheme of Kilian (2009). Our key findings can be summarized as: l) oil exporting developing countries exhibit procyclical respond to positive...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 26/02/2018
Using arbitration under Article 25 of the DSU to ensure the availability of appeals
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 22/02/2018
Global value chains and product sophistication: an empirical investigation of Indian firms
This paper analyses the impact of GVC linkages on product upgrading using the Indian firm-level dataset Prowess, and methodologies of System-GMM and Propensity score matching. Defining product upgrading as a movement towards more sophisticated products, we use Haussmann's product sophistication index to calculate a sales-weighted average sophistication level of Indian manufacturing...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 22/02/2018
India's proposal for trade facilitation of services: a breath of fresh air for global trade?
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
Appellate Body report on EU-Biodiesel: the future of China's state capitalism under the WTO AU-Dumping Agreement
China's unique economic system poses increasing challenges to the world trading system and attracts growing academic and policy debates. WTO members have frequently resorted to antidumping measures in dealing with price distortions caused by Chinese government influence in the economy. The Appellate Body's decision in the recent EU – Biodiesel dispute starts to remove the flexibility...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
A framework for rethinking NAFTA for the 21st century: policies, institutions, and regionalism
The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign made the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) a prime target in a heated and divisive debate that questioned the United States' participation in the international trading system. Though campaign rhetoric typically softens as a candidate takes office, this time may be different. President Donald Trump has called NAFTA “the worst trade deal...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
The impact of new regionalism on global value chains participation
This article investigates the impact of trade agreements on bilateral trade flows of manufactured goods. Compared to other studies, it enriches the analysis by decomposing gross trade flows into their value added components, and by considering the direction of trade flows and the content of trade agreements. The analysis reveals a clear pattern in the effects of economic integration...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
The politics of dolphin-safe tuna in the United States: balancing international and domestic constraints (1984-2016)
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
Services liberalization and GVC participation: new evidence for heterogeneous effects by income level and provisions
Participation in global value chains (GVCs) is a key element in the industrialization strategies of many developing nations. Many studies look at the determinants of GVC participation but most focus on do- mestic regulatory environments, the cost of doing business, and trade policy. This paper investigates the possibility that services also mat- ter by empirically testing for a link...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
How does environmental regulation shape economic development?: a tax competition model of China
We propose a novel theoretical framework to study how environmental regulation shapes economic development in a developing country such as China. We develop a dynamic tax competition model in which local governments, located in development zones, use variation in taxes to attract workers to their jurisdictions. Their objective is to maximize tax revenue less local health costs that...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 20/02/2018
The Advocate General's opinion in Intel: more consistent enforcement across practices and instruments
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 19/02/2018
What holds African LDC exports back?: translating global trade alert data into a positive trade agenda for Africa: background report
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/02/2018
What holds back African LDC exports?: translating global trade alert data into a positive trade agenda for Africa
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/02/2018
International arbitrage and the extensive margin of trade between rich and poor countries
We incorporate consumption indivisibilities into the Krugman (1980) model and show that an importer’s per capita income becomes a primary determinant of “export zeros”. Households in the rich North (poor South) are willing to pay high (low) prices for consumer goods; hence unconstrained monopoly pricing generates arbitrage opportunities for internationally traded products. Export...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
A dynamic North-South Model of Demand-induced Product Cycles
This paper presents a dynamic North-South general-equilibrium model where per capita incomes shape demand patterns across regions. Innovation takes place in a rich North while firms in a poor South imitate products manufactured in North. Allowing a role for per capita incomes in determining demand delivers a complete international product cycle as described by Vernon (1966), where...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
RWebData: A High-Level Interface to the Programmable Web
The rise of the programmable web offers new opportunities for the empirically driven sciences. The access to, compilation and preparation of data from the programmable web for statistical analysis can, however, involve substantial up-front costs for the practical researcher. The R-package RWebData provides a high-level framework that allows data to be easily collected from the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2018
Volatile Top Income Shares in Switzerland? Reassessing the Evolution Between 1981 and 2010
In the last 20 years, the share of top incomes in Switzerland has risen, while
exhibiting large variations. Switzerland is similar to European countries for the top
1% but closer to the U.S. for higher top income groups. With the synthetic control
method we close a time gap in the tax data, exploiting the fact that Swiss cantons
changed their tax system at...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2017
Europe Fettered: The impact of crisis-era trade distortions on exports from the European Union
Having grown in real terms by 60% between 2000 to 2008, extra-EU exports have since stagnated. Stripping out other determinants of EU export growth, the focus here is on the impact of trade distortions imposed by foreign governments since the global economic crisis began. Our econometric analysis implies that crisis-era trade distortions held back EU Member State export growth to...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2017
Hostage to fortune: Local labour markets and the case for trade
Institution partenaire
English / 01/11/2017
Ricardo’s relevance in today’s open but heavily distorted world trading system
Institution partenaire
/ 01/11/2017
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