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Digital trade facilitation : paperless trade in regional trade agreements
Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong - 2017
Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and enabling effective participation in cross-border...
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What matters for private investment financing in renewable energy globally and in Asia?
Azhgaliyeva, Dina; Beirne, John; Mishra, Ranjeeta - 2021
This paper examines the drivers of private investment in renewable energy by source of funding for 13 global economies … effect in Asia on driving private investment in renewable energy, particularly from asset finance compared with other funding … government expenditure on research and development in stimulating private investment. The magnitudes of the effects in Asia are …
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A preliminary evaluation of marinized offshore charging stations for future electric ships
Yuan, Jun; Nian, Victor - 2020
countries pour trillions of dollars of investment into future electrification, this study attempted to answer a critical …. The study selected three offshore power technologies, namely wind, solar, and floating nuclear power plants, as there are … vessels are economically feasible even under the assumed first-of-a-kind costs, especially when floating nuclear power plants …
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International trade and inequality
Urata, Shūjirō; Narjoko, Dionisius - 2017
The impact of globalization on equality has become a serious concern for many countries. More evidence that challenges the theoretical prediction of positive impact of international trade on income distribution has increasingly become available recently. This paper addresses this subject,...
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Trade and sustainable fisheries
Sumaila, Ussif Rashid - 2017
The ultimate goal of this contribution is to formulate fish trade policy recommendations that can be deployed to help achieve the relevant Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (SDGs). Even though all the 17 SDGs are relevant to the issues addressed in this contribution, I will...
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Breaking par : short-term determinants of yen-dollar swap deviations
Angrick, Stefan; Nemoto, Naoko - 2018
This paper analyses deviations in yen-dollar cross-currency swap markets between 2007 and 2017. Using weekly-frequency data on money market-related and capital marketrelated financial variables, we analyse how the cross-currency basis is influenced by differences in returns and different types...
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Human capital and income inequality
Lee, Jong-Wha; Lee, Hanol - 2018
This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment, is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad range of countries between 1980 and 2015, show that a more equal distribution of education contributes...
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Shifting towards a consumer-centered economy and the implications for international trade
Helble, Matthias - 2018
Globalization has radically changed the way in how goods and services are produced. The impact of globalization on production has been driven mainly by two determinants: In a first phase, a quick fall in transportation costs between countries and in a second, more recent phase, a drastic...
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Global value chains and effective exchange rates at the country-sector level
Patel, Nikhil; Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-jin - 2017
The real effective exchange rate (REER) is one of the most cited statistical constructs in open-economy macroeconomics. We show that the models used to compute these numbers are not rich enough to allow for the rising importance of global value chains. Moreover, because different sectors within...
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Informal labor regulations, firm boundaries, and global sourcing
Bansal, Renu; Maiti, Dibyendu - 2024
labor-abundant country under both transaction-cost and property-rights theory approaches. The attractiveness of foreign … investment rises with the fall in the costs for foreign firms that access informal labor. However, such adverse effects of the …-level data for 31 countries confirm such conjectures and reveal that foreign investment declines with the rise in the fraction of …
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