Effects of Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements on the Extensive Margin of International Trade

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Dong Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Economic Partnership

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-749
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Product Variety ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Consumer Benefits ◽  
Export Variety ◽  
The University ◽  
Extensive Margin Of Trade

David E. Weinstein of Columbia University reviews “Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade” by Robert C. Feenstra. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores the methods that have been developed to measure the product variety of imports and exports in international trade and the gains from trade due to product variety. Discusses consumer benefits from import variety; producer benefits from export variety; the extensive margin of trade and country productivity; and product variety and the measurement of real gross domestic product. Feenstra is Professor of Economics and C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair in International Economics at the University of California, Davis. Index.”

Regional trade agreement burdens global carbon emission mitigation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kailan Tian ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Yuze Li ◽  
Xi Ming ◽  
Shangrong Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Emission Mitigation ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Economic Output ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Abstract Regional trade agreements (RTAs) have been widely adopted to facilitate international trade and cross-border investment and ultimately promote economic development. However, ex ante measurements of the environmental effects of RTAs to date have not been well conducted. Here, we estimate the CO2 emission burdens of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) after evaluating its economic effects. We find that trade among RCEP member countries will increase significantly and economic output will expand with the reduction of regional tariffs. However, the results show that complete tariff elimination among RCEP members would increase the yearly global CO2 emissions from fuel combustion by about 3.12%, which doubles the annual average growth rate of global CO2 emissions in the last decade. The emissions in some developing members will surge. We therefore stress the necessity of balancing carbon mitigation and the pursuit of economic profitability. The technological advancement of emission mitigation and more effective climate policies for international trade are urgently required to avoid undermining international efforts to reduce global emissions.

WHAT MATTERS FOR THE EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE MARGINS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE? EVIDENCE FROM KOREAN EXPORTS

2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (03) ◽  
pp. 1250018 ◽  
Author(s):  
KICHUN KANG
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Price Index ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Export Promotion ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Suggested Model ◽  
Intensive Margin ◽  
Quantity Index ◽  
Extensive And Intensive Margins ◽  
What Matters

Recently, there has been increased interest in the distinction between the extensive margin (EM) and the intensive margin (IM) of international trade. Between 1988 and 2006, the growth of the EMs and IMs of Korean exports has been diverse across its destinations. This paper links each component of the trade value (EM, IM, price index and quantity index) to factors that have been identified as trade determinants in the suggested model. This paper finds that the destination GDP, distance, tariffs, language, existence of an export promotion agency (EPA), local infrastructure and import procedures have an effect on the EMs and IMs of Korea's exports, and the effect works largely through the IM. This paper examines the external environment that shapes the contributions of each of these margins of a country's exports.

A Literature Survey on Extensive and Intensive Margins in International Trade

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-136
Author(s):  
Burcu Berke
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Export Growth ◽  
Global Trade ◽  
Extensive Margin ◽  
Exporting Firms ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Extensive And Intensive Margins ◽  
Trade Partners

Products and firms are homogeneous in traditional foreign trade theories; products show no horizontal or vertical differentiation. It is observed that growth in exports is only related to an increase in export quantity and that this is not decomposed into margins. Since Melitz's work, there has been an increase in studies that decompose the firms' heterogeneity and export growth in foreign trade into extensive and intensive margins. The concepts are addressed in the literature known as “new-new” foreign trade theories which include extensive margins, the number of exporting firms, the number of new trade partners, and the volume or variety of exported products. In brief, the growth of global trade is the result of new trade relations (extensive margin) or a rise in existing trade relations (intensive margin). As one of the rapidly developing trade theories in international economics, the main purpose of this study is to conduct a literature survey on the extensive and intensive margins of export growth.

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