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Prevailing trade theory is a neglected stepchild of economics. Micro rejects the sole reason for trade’s occurrence. It declares zero profit in equilibrium. Monetary theory and macroeconomics dismiss concerns of trade financing. They assert that money has nothing to do with traded output, but...
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has binary support, however, local trade networks are shown to generate spatial unemployment clusters which can persist …
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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
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The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...
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of its detrimental impact on the formation of domestic institutions, such as the security of private property, the …
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Luego de examinar el marco teórico y conceptual de la teoría del crecimiento y del comercio internacional, se mide la eficacia de la apertura comercial impulsada por el TLCAN para fomentar el intercambio comercial. Asimismo, se evalúan los efectos de éste en el crecimiento económico de los...
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second half of the 90s showed the necessity of creating sound financial institutions. In addition other institutions e.g. in …
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Still, globalisation and its effects on wages and employment is a major topic in the public press. Therefore, this article provides an overview of popular models studying the effects of an intensified international trade on the domestic labour markets in presence of imperfections on the latter....
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closed economy, this paper concludes that, with the expansion of capital stock both the unemployment rate and the absolute … amount of unemployment will decrease. In an open economy, this paper sets up an asymmetric model, of which only one region … has fixed wage rate. It will help us to investigate how the trading cost would affect the unemployment and output of the …
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