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Thailand vs. Egypt: reflections on the concept of ‘electoral dictatorship’
Jarach, Kawee; Speece, Mark - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Thailand and Egypt have seen some striking parallels in the past few years, culminating in military overthrows of …, and liberties of truly democratic systems. Thailand’s middle class opposition labeled this ‘parliamentary dictatorship … authoritarianism” (Brumberg 2013, p. 101).The urban middle classes in both Thailand and Egypt came out into massive street protests …
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Cooperation and Closure in Bilateral Trade Negotiations
Crump, Larry - 2017
Little is known about cooperation between nations engaged in a regional economic association. This study investigates cooperation and closure between Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies engaged in negotiating five bilateral free trade agreements (FTA), including the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172045
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Economic Impacts of Korea-Turkey FTA
Kilinc, Zubeyir; Mavuş, Merve; Oduncu, Arif - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The trade volume and diversity of the products traded between Korea and Turkey have been increasing since early 2000s. On top of this, the enthusiasm of the countries in exploring new opportunities led them to start the negotiations on signing a free trade agreement in 2010. The process was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212775
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Towards a U.S.-Indonesia free trade agreement
Soesastro, Hadi - Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) - 2004
States and between Thailand and Australia. The third and concluding section discusses the kind of preparations needed on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133012
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Challenges to APEC Trade Policy: The Doha Development Agenda and RTAs/FTAs
Soesastro, Hadi - Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) - 2003
Recent development in global trade saw countries moving in multiple fronts in liberalising trade, utilising multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements to promote trade. This paper examines the issues surrounding this latest trend, noting the opportunities as well as dangers to global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729434
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Spillover effects of the US financial crisis on financial markets in emerging Asian countries
Kim, Bonghan; Kim, Hyeongwoo; Leeb, Bong‐Soo - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512537
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The financial crisis and the dynamics of the money market rates
Hasler, Nicole - 2014
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about the changing dynamics in the money market rates after 2007. It aims to analyse the interest rate channel of monetary policy transmission until the federal funds target rate reached the zero lower bound. A set of different model explains both...
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Herd behavior and firm-specific information
Chaiyuth Padungsaksawasdi - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
The study shows critical roles of firm-specific information on herd behavior, which is underexplored in prior literature, albeit an increasing impact of firm-specific information on asset pricing. The main finding demonstrates that three of four selected measures of firm-specific information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013179692
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Herd behavior and firm-specific information
In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
The study shows critical roles of firm-specific information on herd behavior, which is underexplored in prior literature, albeit an increasing impact of firm-specific information on asset pricing. The main finding demonstrates that three of four selected measures of firm-specific information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014001591
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Trade concentration and crisis spillover: Case study of transmission of the subprime crisis to Thailand
Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun; Manprasert, Somprawin - 2012
crisis to East Asian countries, including Thailand. The international trade literature points out that trade concentration is … considered to be an important factor in the amplification of the effects of the crisis. Thailand was still greatly affected by … find that Thailand still has high exposure to the G3 markets. Simulation using the CGE model has also confirmed that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287949