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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks
Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995
This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any …
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Negotiated Trade Restrictions with Private Political Pressure
Feenstra, Robert C. - 1987
In this paper we consider a home government with political pressure to restrict trade, at the expense of foreigners. The foreign country is compensated with an income transfer, which can be thought of as a portion of the tariff revenues or quota rents. In this setting the two countries should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476694
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Commodity prices and markets : [NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 20 ; collection of papers that were presented at the 20th Annual East Asia Seminar on Economics (EASE) ;...
Itō, Takatoshi (contributor); Rose, Andrew (contributor) - 2011
Forecasting currencies with commodity prices -- Commodity prices, commodity currencies, and global economic developments / Jan J. J. Groen and Paolo A. Pesenti -- Comments: Kalok Chan, Roberto S. Mariano -- The relationship between commodity prices and currency exchange rates: evidence from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909722
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Commodity Market Integration, 1500-2000
Findlay, Ronald - 2001
integration was not monotonic; it was periodically interrupted by shocks such as wars and world depressions, or by endogenous …
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Terms of Trade Shocks and Economic Performance 1870-1940 : Prebisch and Singer Revisited
Hadass, Yael S. - 2001
Debate over trends in the terms of trade between primary commodities and manufactures, their causes and their impact has dominated the literature for more than a century. Classical economists claimed that the terms of trade of primary commodities should improve since land and natural resources...
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Inventories and the Short-Run Dynamics of Commodity Prices
Pindyck, Robert S. - 1990
The idea that wages rise relative to alternatives as job seniority accumulates is the foundation of the theory of specific human capital, as well as other widely accepted theories of compensation. The fact that persons with longer job tenures typically earn higher wages tends to support these...
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Financialization in Commodity Markets
Chari, V.V. - 2017
The financialization view is that increased trading in commodity futures markets is associated with increases in the growth rate and volatility of commodity spot prices. This view gained credence because in the 2000s trading volume increased sharply and many commodity prices rose and became more...
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Commodity Connectedness
Diebold, Francis X. - 2017
We use variance decompositions from high-dimensional vector autoregressions to characterize connectedness in 19 key commodity return volatilities, 2011-2016. We study both static (full-sample) and dynamic (rolling-sample) connectedness. We summarize and visualize the results using tools from...
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The Financialization of Commodity Markets
Cheng, Ing-Haw - 2013
The large inflow of investment capital to commodity futures markets in the last decade has generated a heated debate about whether financialization distorts commodity prices. Rather than focusing on the opposing views concerning whether investment flows either did or did not cause a price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459020
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Informational Frictions and Commodity Markets
Sockin, Michael - 2013
This paper develops a model to analyze information aggregation in commodity markets. Through centralized trading, commodity prices aggregate dispersed information about the strength of the global economy among goods producers whose production has complementarity, and serve as price signals to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459755