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EBA- en förändring eller endast bra i teorin?

Åkesson, Malin LU and Bengtsson, Agnes LU (2021) NEKH02 20202
Department of Economics
Abstract
Trade has for long been seen as the most efficient and important measure to increase the economy and welfare for a country. Therefore, several industrialized countries have agreed on different benefit trade agreements towards the LDC countries. One of these trade agreements is the ‘Everything But Arms’ agreement between the European Union and the LDC. However, these trade agreements have been criticized for not fulfilling their purpose in increasing the export from the LDCs. By using different estimations of the gravity model this study aims to examine if the EBA agreement has led to an increase in the export from the LDC countries to the European Union. The empirical part of this study contains panel data from several countries with over... (More)
Trade has for long been seen as the most efficient and important measure to increase the economy and welfare for a country. Therefore, several industrialized countries have agreed on different benefit trade agreements towards the LDC countries. One of these trade agreements is the ‘Everything But Arms’ agreement between the European Union and the LDC. However, these trade agreements have been criticized for not fulfilling their purpose in increasing the export from the LDCs. By using different estimations of the gravity model this study aims to examine if the EBA agreement has led to an increase in the export from the LDC countries to the European Union. The empirical part of this study contains panel data from several countries with over 62 000 observations between 1990-2015. The importing countries represent all 23 members of EU-23 and the LDCs members of EBA represent our exporters. As part of our empirical strategy we also add control groups with different importer countries as well as different exporting countries. As a result we got negative significant results which show that the EBA agreement does not increase the export for the LDCs. In fact it even decreases the export from the world's poorest countries during some years. (Less)
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author
Åkesson, Malin LU and Bengtsson, Agnes LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKH02 20202
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
EBA, GSP, Difference-in-Difference, Gravitymodel, Event study
language
Swedish
id
9037651
date added to LUP
2021-03-11 11:57:43
date last changed
2021-03-11 11:57:43
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  abstract     = {{Trade has for long been seen as the most efficient and important measure to increase the economy and welfare for a country. Therefore, several industrialized countries have agreed on different benefit trade agreements towards the LDC countries. One of these trade agreements is the ‘Everything But Arms’ agreement between the European Union and the LDC. However, these trade agreements have been criticized for not fulfilling their purpose in increasing the export from the LDCs. By using different estimations of the gravity model this study aims to examine if the EBA agreement has led to an increase in the export from the LDC countries to the European Union. The empirical part of this study contains panel data from several countries with over 62 000 observations between 1990-2015. The importing countries represent all 23 members of EU-23 and the LDCs members of EBA represent our exporters. As part of our empirical strategy we also add control groups with different importer countries as well as different exporting countries. As a result we got negative significant results which show that the EBA agreement does not increase the export for the LDCs. In fact it even decreases the export from the world's poorest countries during some years.}},
  author       = {{Åkesson, Malin and Bengtsson, Agnes}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{EBA- en förändring eller endast bra i teorin?}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}