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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Gravity Equation"”.
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Effects of Quantitative Restrictions on U.S. Textile and Apparel Imports over 1995-2010: An Analysis using Gravity Models
… Comtrade) database. In this research, three gravity equations were developed and estimated based on the existing gravity model. The first gravity equation was estimated to assess the effects of the independent variables commonly included in gravity models on the total value of U.S. textile …
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The Effectiveness of Industrial Countrys' Preferential Market Access Arrangements on Stimulating Caribbean Exports
… to make this evaluation. The first approach is a gravity trade model that relies in both time series and cross-sectional data. The Gravity equation includes variables that comprises both demand and supply factors as well as dummy variables to reflect structural changes associated with preferences. …
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International Trade Costs and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Agricultural Trade
… yet empirically powerful, manipulation of the gravity equation. The gravity model has been dubbed the work horse model of empirical trade, and thus is a suitable foundation from which to derive an indirect measure of largely unobservable 'iceberg' trade costs. In this paper, I solve a sector …
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Three Essays in Empirical Economics
… effect. An augmented, theoretically consistent gravity equation is developed to explore the effects of RTAs on trade, conditional on the policy areas they include. In particular, we investigate two policy areas that are particularly important for agricultural trade, sanitary and phytosanitary …
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The role of interstate trade and crop insurance programs on the U.S. agriculture’s capacity to adapt to climate change
… I combine two commonly used reduced form models: gravity equation and Ricardian analysis to study how drought will affect the domestic trade flow, and further change local agricultural profit. I find that interstate trade, to a large extent, can mitigate the adverse impact of increasing droughts …
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International Trade in a Competitive World: Empirical Evidence from the UK
… the determinants of trade in services in a gravity framework, considering both country- and firm-level factors. The second chapter investigates how the determinants of service trade vary along the distribution of trade value and how the firm-level characteristics influence the impact of …
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Three Essays on the Generalized System of (Trade) Preferences
… concentrated. Using a theoretically consistent gravity equation for primary and processed agri-food trade over the period 1962-2010, the results illustrate that the GSP program and modifications of it have delivered significant positive effects in developing countries' exports to developed …
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Optimum currency areas in the sub Sahara region : examining eligibility of the east African community for a monetary union
… of the exchange rates across the region. The gravity model based on panel equations and other necessary time series procedures are widely used by this study due to their power to produce robust empirical findings. To estimate the gravity equation, we apply FE, RE, POLS and GMM so as to gather …
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Openness and economic growth
… growth. In the second study, an extended gravity model is constructed to identify the main causes of recent trade growth in OECD countries. The specific features include (a) the explicit introduction of R&D and FDI as two important explanatory variables into an augmented gravity equation; …
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Trade in Renewable Energy Commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An Exploratory Study
… capacity investment. The second paper applies a gravity model with a metafrontier approach to evaluate renewable energy commodities trade performance among RCEP members. It divides 11 countries into two groups based on their export volumes of renewable energy commodities to calculate each …
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Trade in Renewable Energy Commodities among Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries: An Exploratory Study
… capacity investment. The second paper applies a gravity model with a metafrontier approach to evaluate renewable energy commodities trade performance among RCEP members. It divides 11 countries into two groups based on their export volumes of renewable energy commodities to calculate each …
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Opportunity costs of trade-related capacity development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… 24 are in sub-Saharan Africa. Making use ofa gravity equation augmented with trade-related capacity building variables we run a series of Heckman's two-step selection regressions and estimate the marginal impacts of these trade-related capacity building indicators on trade as measured by value …
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Exchange rate volatility in LDCs: some findings from the Ghanaian, Mozambican and Tanzanian markets
… the economic performance of a country. Using a gravity model augmented with variables that are deemed to influence earnings from trade, we observe that earnings from trade are not significantly affected by exchange rate volatility. We conjecture that in periods of uncertainty, traders increase …
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Economic Impacts of the Free Trade Agreement Between the European Union and Colombia
… show that: • Partial equilibrium models, gravity equation models and computable general equilibrium analysis are the most used models for assessing the impacts of FTAs on welfare and trade of signing economies and regions. These models include both ex-ante and ex-post liberalization trade …
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Economic integration of the East African community
… around the structural micro-foundations of the gravity equation. The results show that the EAC integration generated large trade creation effects for all member countries that superseded the trade diversion effects. Kenya, which is the most industrialized country in the EAC, was the only country …
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Three essays in applied macroeconomics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Essays on transport economics
… a model that applies a dynamic version of the gravity equation. Two lags of the dependent variable, the log of freight goods transported from one region to another, were included as explanatory variables. It was then statistically tested whether systematic changes in the past values of road …