German Development Economics Conference 2024

Session

Parallel Session 7

24 May 2024, 11:00

Leibniz Universität Hannover

144. Regional Market Integration and Household Welfare: Spatial Evidence from the East African Community

Frederik Wild (University of Bayreuth)

24/05/2024, 11:00

International Trade

Parallel Session

The distributional consequences of trade liberalization in Africa are under-researched. In this paper, I investigate the differential impact of the East African Community (EAC) on household welfare using three distinct sets of longitudinal, geo-referenced household-level surveys from the three founding members Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. I thereby treat the re-establishment of the EAC in 2001...

193. Industrial policy and input market access: Evidence from Nigerian fertiliser

Ricardo Guzman (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)

24/05/2024, 11:30

International Trade

Parallel Session

Many economies use industrial policy to nurture sectors that produce inputs critical to economic development. While there are theoretical reasons that justify such state interventions, there is limited direct evidence on whether industrial policy in input markets could effectively induce productivity gains for firms that purchase these inputs. In this paper, I make progress on this front by...

125. What Role for Aid for Trade in (Deep) PTA Relations?

Tim Vogel (German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS))

24/05/2024, 12:00

International Trade

Parallel Session

While recent preferential trade agreements (PTAs) cover an increasingly broad range of policy areas beyond their traditional competence for reducing bilateral tariffs, little is known about the implications of this new emphasis on interactions with other trade-related policy measures. We approach this gap by examining the effectiveness of bilateral aid for trade (AfT) in deep North–South PTA...