Measuring Marginal Intra-Industry Trade. — Trade liberalisation and adjustment: how important is intra-industry trade? This paper focuses on the appropriate measurement of intra-industry trade as indicator of structural ...
This paper focuses on the appropriate measurement of intra-industry trade as indicator of structural adjustment costs. Vertical intra-industry trade is distinguished from horizontal trade on the basis of industrial ...
Thom, Rodney(University College Dublin. Department of Economics, 1999-01)
This paper presents an analysis of the growth and structure of EU-CEE intra-industry trade since the latter commenced their economic transition in the late 1980's. Section 2 outlines the economic rationale for intra-industry ...
Cole, Matthew T.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-10-23)
There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction
of firm heterogeneity into trade models. However, these models tend to rely heavily
on symmetry assumptions and assume melting iceberg ...
Cole, Matthew T.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-06)
Since firm heterogeneity has been introduced into international trade models, the
importance of firm entry and exit (the extensive margin) has been highlighted. Thomas
Chaney (2008) illustrates how accounting for ...
Cole, Matthew T.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04)
There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction
of firm heterogeneity into trade models. This introduction has highlighted the
importance of the entry/exit decision of firms in response ...
This paper looks at some aspects of trade and investment relations between the EU and the countries of central and eastern Europe (CEEC). The approach used is based on a model of trade with, and development of, a frontier ...
We introduce an index of trade policy restrictiveness defined as the uniform tariff which maintains the same trade volume as a given tariff/quota structure. Our index overcomes the problems of the trade-weighted average ...
This policy brief identifies the major elements that determine the trade and competitiveness effects of the introduction
of an emission-trading regime. These effects depend most of all on the breadth of the emissions ...
In this paper, we investigate techniques for measuring the trade policy equivalent of domestic distortions, using a distance function approach. Our measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, is shown to equal the uniform ...