Browsing NUPI Research Online by Subject "VDP::Economics: 212"
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Can trade preferences stimulate sectoral development? The case of Namibian and Botswanan beef exports to Norway
(NUPI Policy Brief;2020-1, Research report, 2020)• While market access quotas have generated high levels of rents for traders and exporters in Namibia, Botswana, Norway, and offshore entities in the UK, their developmental benefits are diffuse, unclear, and difficult to ... -
Customs-brokers as facilitators in international trade
(NUPI Working Paper;880, Research report, 2017)Recent studies suggest that firms can reduce fixed trade costs by hiring intermediaries like trading companies. I argue that customs brokers – a type of intermediary rarely studied in economics before – can play a similar ... -
Darwinistisk seleksjon i en global økonomi
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Digital Technologies, Services and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(TIISA Working Paper;2020-02, Research report, 2020)The increasingly rapid uptake of digital technologies is launching the global economy into the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and the next transformative wave of globalisation. Trade in merchandise is in long-run relative ... -
Market-specific Sunk Export Costs: The Impact of Learning and Spillovers
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Regulatory barriers to trade in services: A new database and composite indices
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper presents new data on services trade regulation for 46 countries in 22 services sectors over 6 years (2014–2019). The data consist of qualitative information which is scored and weighted to produce composite ... -
The reverse home market effect in exports: a cross-country study of the extensive margin of exports.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Do small countries have higher proportions of firms that export in manufacturing industries than large ones? As small countries are well known to be more open than large ones, it may appear uncontroversial to claim that ... -
Trade barriers or trade facilitators? The heterogeneous impact of food standards in international trade
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11)Recent research shows that the effect of food standards can beheterogeneous across sectors or countries: theysometimes act as barriers to trade, but in other cases may lead to increased trade. I present empirical evidence ...