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The Asian â€œNoodle Bowlâ€:Is It Serious for Business?

Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - eSocialSciences - 2009

A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"â€”i.e., overlapping regional trade agreementsâ€”of trade deals and others who see net beneficial effects in...

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The Post-Crisis Sequencing of Economic Integration in Asia: Trade as a Complement to a Monetary Future

Plummer, Michael G.; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - In: Economie Internationale (2006) 107, pp. 59-85

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of “trade first, money later”, recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...

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The West European Woollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

-- gained, held, but then ultimately lost their dominance in the production and export of luxury woollen textiles, those based … abandon export-oriented production of cheap, light, mass-market textiles, especially says and other semi-worsted fabrics … with an export trade aimed at lower-echelon luxury markets, finally gained supremacy, by the late 15 th century, over the …

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Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the Later Middle Ages: Changing Trends in Cloth Prices and Markets, 1290 - 1550

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

export-oriented production of the very cheap and light fabrics, most of which had been sent to Mediterranean markets and had …-orient their export-oriented cloth production more and more towards high-priced ultra-luxury quality woollens, woven almost … exclusively from the finer English wools, but wools that came to be burdened with high export taxes; and (3) to force the Flemish …

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Wool and Wool-Based Textiles in the West European Economy, c.800 - 1500: Innovations and Traditions in Textile Products, Technology, and Industrial Organisation

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

in the late-medieval economy centuries forced so many textile-producers to forsake the export-oriented production of …

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The Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Warfare, Transaction Costs, and the 'New Institutional Economics'

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

This paper revisits, modifies, and combines elements of three major 'institutional' international-trade models, none of which has yet fully received the attention that it deserves, to provide a new explanation for the growth, decline, and then rebirth of internationally-oriented fairs in the...

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Hanseatic Commerce in Textiles from the Low Countries and England during the Later Middle Ages:

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

) to cripple the export-oriented production of the very cheap and light fabrics, most of which had been sent to … the Low Countries and England to re-orient their export-oriented cloth production more and more towards high-priced ultra …-luxury quality woollens, woven almost exclusively from the finer English wools, but wools that came to be burdened with high export …

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The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with the Mediterranean Basin, 1200-1600: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Comparative Advantages in Overland and Maritime Trade Routes

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1999

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom in European economic history that long-distance maritime transport was always more cost-effective than overland trade routes. Thus the majority of historians in the past century have attributed the rapid decline of the medieval Champagne Fairs,...

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Luxury and Ultra-Luxury Consumption in Later Medieval and Early Modern European Dress

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

Over many millennia, mankind has laboured to consume and satisfy three very necessary material wants or needs: food (including drink), shelter, and clothing. Each of these, however, has also been a major object of luxury consumption in most European societies. Textiles were necessities in...

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The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, c. 1320 - c. 1420

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013

European cloth producers to reorient their export-oriented production to very high priced luxury woollens (and silks) and also … for Florence: for its luxury woollens industry soon became late-medieval Italy's single most important export …

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