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Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission
Artis, Michael J; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The paper uses long-run GDP data for developed countries drawn from Maddison (2003) to generate deviation cycles for the period from 1870 to 2001. The cyclical deviates are examined for their bilateral cross-correlation values in three separate periods, those of the first globalization wave...
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Trade, Transboundary Pollution and Market Size
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Sanctuary, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper uses a monopolistic competitive framework with many sectors to study the impact of trade liberalization on local and global emissions. We focus on the interplay of the pollution haven effect and the home market effect and show how a large-market advantage can counterbalance a high...
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Trade, Transboundary Pollution and Market Size
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Sanctuary, Mark - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2013
This paper uses a monopolistic competitive framework with many sectors to study the impact of trade liberalization on local and global emissions. We focus on the interplay of the pollution haven effect and the home market effect and show how a large-market advantage can counterbalance a high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010638910
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Quantifying the EU-Japan economic partnership agreement
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kimura, Fukunari; Okubo, Toshihiro; … - 2018
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … econometric ex-post analysis of a related FTA, the one between the EU and Korea, in force since 2011, to approximate the expected … the Americas, Africa and MENA countries slightly lose. 14% of the welfare gains inside the FTA stem from tariffs, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903006
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Quantifying the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2018
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … econometric ex-post analysis of a related FTA, the one between the EU and Korea, in force since 2011, to approximate the expected … the Americas, Africa and MENA countries slightly lose. 14% of the welfare gains inside the FTA stem from tariffs, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908655
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International Trade, Offshoring and Heterogeneous Firms
Baldwin, Richard; Okubo, Toshihiro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Recent trade models determine the equilibrium distribution of firm-level efficiency endogenously and show that freer trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size...
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Trade, location and multiproduct firms
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2019
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Trade liberalization and the agglomeration of heterogeneous entrepreneurs
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110066
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Product quality and intra-industry trade
Ito, Tadashi; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
In this study, we argue that the conventional intra-industry trade (IIT) index does not address the quality issue directly and propose a methodology to make full use of unit-price gap information to deduce quality differences between simultaneously exported and imported products. By applying...
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Are capital intensive firms the biggest exporters?
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper starts out from the observation that the export shares of firms (export to sales ratio) vary greatly among firms, and tend to be systematically related to the firms' capital labour ratios. This observation cannot be explained by the standard heterogeneous firms and trade model by...
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