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           Focus
        | How is the EU competitiveness doing ? 
 The EU competitiveness in goods has recently deteriorated. The global financial crisis has taken a toll on European producers that before 2007 were maintaining their market positions. Exports still embody 85% of value added created in the EU, despite increasing fragmentation of value chains. Therefore European exports are still predominently "Made in Europe".
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 Angela Cheptea,  Charlotte Emlinger, Lionel Fontagné, Gianluca Orefice & Olga Pindyuk
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	         Immigrants and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from FranceCristina Mitaritonna, Gianluca Orefice, Giovanni Peri
 
 
Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology AdoptionMatteo Cervellati, Alireza Naghavi, Farid Toubal
 
 
Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the OrganizationAlireza Naghavi, Julia Spies, Farid Toubal
 
 
The Development of EU and EU Member States’ External CompetitivenessAngela Cheptea,  Charlotte Emlinger, Lionel Fontagné, Gianluca Orefice & Olga Pindyuk & Robert Stehrer
 
 
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 Aid-for-Trade: what works and what does not
 
 A multiplicity of approaches is needed to evaluate the efficiency of AFT. In general, it is difficult to rely on cross-country studies to direct AFT. More rigorous impact evaluation (IE) is an under-utilized alternative, but situations of “clinical interventions” in trade are rare and adverse incentives (due to agency problems) and costs (due to the small size of project) are a hurdle in implementation.
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 Olivier Cadot, Ana Fernandes, Julien Gourdon, Aaditya Mattoo & Jaime de Melo
 
 
 
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           Facts & Figures | 
 
 This is what one percentage point increase in the VAT rebate can lead to in Chinese export volumes. This magnitude allows to better understand the strong resistance of China’s exports amid the global recession.
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 Julien Gourdon, Stéphanie Monjon, Sandra Poncet
 
 
 
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