Nottingham Centre for Research on
Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)

Research Papers 2017

2017

GEP 17/15: Twin peaks

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In this paper Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño show that, contrary to received wisdom, the distribution of export intensity (the share of a firm's sales accounted for by exports) in a large number of countries is bimodal - ie exhibits 'Twin Peaks'.

GEP 17/14: Technology, market structure and the gains from trade

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Giammario Impullitti, Omar Licandro and Pontus Rendahl

GEP 17/13: Do immigrants' funds affect the exchange rate?

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Nusrate Aziz, Arusha Cooray and Wing Leong Teo

GEP 17/12: The evolution of markets in China and Western Europe on the eve of industrialisation

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Daniel Bernhofen, Markus Eberhardt, Jianan Li, Stephen Morgan

GEP 17/11: Measuring productivity and absorptive capacity evolution

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In this study Stef De Visscher, Markus Eberhardt, and Gerdie Everaert introduce a new empirical approach to studying the ability of economies to benefit from international knowledge spillovers.

GEP 17/10: Globalisation and state capitalism: Assessing Vietnam's accession to the WTO

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In this paper Leonardo Baccini, Giammario Impullitti and Edmund J. Malesky assess the productivity gains from trade in an economy with a substantial presence of State-Owned Enterprises.

GEP 17/08: Non-tariff and overall protection: Evidence from across countries and over time

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Zhaohui Niu, Chang Liu, Saileshsingh Gunessee, Chris Milner

GEP 17/06: Trust and technology transfers

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Maria Garcia-Vega and Elena Huergo

GEP 17/05: Heterogeneous economic integration agreements' effects, gravity, and welfare

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Scott L Baier, Jeffrey H Bergstrand and Matthew W Clance

GEP 17/04: All these worlds are yours, except India: The effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal

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Fabrice Defever, José-Daniel Reyes, Alejandro Riaño and Gonzalo Varela

GEP 17/03: Deep integration and UK-EU trade relations

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Alen Mulabdic, Alberto Osnago and Michele Ruta

GEP 17/02: Market-specific trade costs and firm dynamics in Pakistan: Evaluating the US integrated cargo containers control programme

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Salamat Ali, Richard Kneller and Chris Milner investigate the effects of the US IC3 programme - intended to make cargo containers more secure – on access to the US market for imports from Pakistan. They find that the increased costs of IC3 caused a significant 8-11% drop in Pakistani exports to the US between 2007 and 2014 compared to the EU, which did not implement an IC3 programme.

GEP 17/01: China's dual export sector

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Fabrice Defever and Alejandro Riaño

 

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