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Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence, imposes some very restrictive assumptions upon the data generating process, these assumptions have generally been taken for granted so far. The present paper proposes, resp. recalls...
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This paper investigates if the euro's effect on euro-area trade differs across trade sectors and across country pairs …, and to what degree heterogeneity matters for estimating the aggregate euro effect. Time-varying latent variables, which …, aggregate exports within the euro area increase between 2000 and 2002 by 15 to 25 percent compared with aggregate exports …
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Der Beitrag analysiert die internationalen Produktionsverlagerungen und Investitionsverflechtungen in der Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissensund technologieintensiver Güter zu einem nachdrängenden Wettbewerb aus Ländern mit...
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This paper answers the question which developing countries have gained and which have lost in the international division of labor during the last thirty years. The indicators used are GDP per capita in constant purchasing power parity and relative distance to the United States. Nearly all...
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Die stärkste Dynamik in der Weltwirtschaft entfaltet derzeit die asiatisch-pazifische Region. Besonders kräftig wachsen dort die vier Schwellenländer Südkorea, Taiwan, Hongkong und Singapur, die im folgenden als asiatische NICs (für Newly Industrializing Countries) bezeichnet werden. Sie...
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Recent empirical research on efficiency gains for Russia from WTO membership concludes that service trade liberalization especially through allowing foreign suppliers to invest in Russian service industries promises the largest gains. This points to sizable efficiency deficits in the Russian...
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Non-traditional source countries of FDI play an increasingly important role, notably in developing host countries. This raises the question of whether the determinants of FDI differ systematically between traditional and non-traditional source countries. We perform Logit and Poisson Pseudo...
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One of the most significant changes in the global economy today is the strong increase in outgoing foreign direct investment (OFDI) from emerging economies to industrialised countries. Whereas investment in less developed countries is often motivated by the sourcing of natural resources and...
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During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
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