Corruption and Trade Protection: Evidence from Panel Data

Corruption and Trade Protection: Evidence from Panel Data

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of corruption and poor institutions on trade protection. It exploits data on several measures of trade protection including import duty, international trade taxes, and the trade-GDP ratio. The paper complements the literature on the relationship between corruption and trade reform. It deviates from the previous literature in several ways. First, ...

Panel Causality Relationship Among FDI And Trade (Evidence From 16 Advanced Europe Countries)

Trade Potential of Turkey with Asia-Pacific Countries: Evidence from Panel Gravity Model

As a result of recent developments, global economic centre of gravity has slide to Asia-Pacific region. It is predicted that Asia-Pacific countries will take place at the first row in global trade and nearly a half of the total trade will intensify in this region at the year 2030. On the other hand, the region covers countries from different levels of development. These features of the region p...

Evidence from German Panel Data

Does Future PC Use Determine Our Wages Today? Evidence from German Panel Data Using 1985–1999 data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) to analyze wages confirms the hypothesis that existing computer wage premiums are determined by individual ability or other unobserved individual characteristics rather than by productivity effects. While a rather large personal computer (PC) wage...

Trade liberalization and `delocalization': new evidence from þrm-level panel data

We examine how U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) and their Canadian afþliates responded to the substantial bilateral tariff reductions that occurred over the 1983{ 92 period. Using conþdential þrm-level data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, we focus on the MNCs' allocation of employment and capital across Canada and the United States. We þnd that Canadian afþliate employment and asset...