Search for dissertations about: "trade barriers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 47 swedish dissertations containing the words trade barriers.

2. 1. Tackling barriers to firm trade : liberalisation, migration and servification

   Author : Magnus Lodefalk; Fredrik Sjöholm; Pär Hansson; Holger Görg; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; trade; liberalisation; WTO; CGE; trade facilitation; services; migration; employer-employee; networks; servicification; manufacturing; firm; enterprise group; deindustrialisation; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : This thesis analyses how to tackle barriers to firm trade and the consequences thereof. In Essay 1, we carefully model trade liberalisation scenarios that include the key elements of the WTO Doha round, scenarios that are implemented in a computable general equilibrium model. READ MORE

4. 2. Trade, Competition and Productivity

   Author : Fredrik Wilhelmsson; Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet AgriFood Economics Centre; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Trade; productivity; exports; food industry; market power; developing countries; trade preferences; CEEC; EU; Europe Agreements; Handel;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers on trade, competition and productivity with particular emphasis on the effects of various aspects of the deepening and widening of the European Union. The first paper Trade Creation, Diversion and Displacement of the EU Enlargement Process provides an assessment of the effects of the EU enlargement process on trade. READ MORE

5. 3. Empirical Sudies in Trade, Growth and Integration

   Author : Rasha M Tostensson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Agglomeration; Urban Giants; Sensitivity Analysis; Income Distribution; Comparative Costs; Gravity Equation; Trade Volume; trade in the Middle East and North Africa; Total factor Productivity; Knowledge Transfer; Long-Run Growth; European Integration; Trade barriers.; International commerce; Internationell ekonomi;

   Abstract : The present study is composed of a series of six independent yet related articles treating various aspects of international trade and economic growth. In Chapter two the effects of European Integration (EI) on long-run economic growth is studied. Contrary to earlier empirical results long-run effects of EI are identified. READ MORE

6. 4. Information, Networks and Trust in the Global Economy - Essays on International Trade and Migration

   Author : Andreas Hatzigeorgiou; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International trade; migration; gravity model; trade costs; networks; information; trust; trade policy;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the role of migration in international trade within the framework of behind-the-border trade barriers and firm behavior. In addition to the introduction, which provides a context to the analysis, it consists of four essays. READ MORE

7. 5. Barriers to change? : understanding the institutional hurdles in the Russian forest sector

   Author : Mats-Olov Olsson; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science; Statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The ongoing transformation of the Russian society largely consists in changes in the institutional framework constraining actors' behavior in the emerging market economy. While we have a substantial knowledge about the functioning of a market economy we know very little about how to create such a system. READ MORE