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This study evaluates potential reforms of the EU and some liberalization policies under the Doha agenda proposal …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. The paper follows …
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Public agencies rely on two key modes to procure goods and services: auctions and direct negotiations. The relative advantages of these two modes are still imperfectly understood. This paper therefore studies public procurement of regional passenger railway services in Germany, where regional...
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, and are initially not fully credible. We argue that sustained privatization and liberalization programmes represent a … significant effect on emerging stock market development through the resolution of policy risk, i.e. the risk of ex post policy … changes with redistributive impact on investment returns. The evidence from our panel study suggests that progress in …
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This Paper looks at the effect of domestic and external financial liberalization. Using a sample of 27 developing and … developed countries, it studies the exchange market pressure and output gap effects of liberalization. The results show that … policy measures desirable to make liberalization safer than it has been so far. …
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The paper analyses the impact of financial liberalization and reform in emerging markets on the dynamics of capital … liberalization, combined with the cost of absorbing large inflows in emerging eonomies, leads to rich dynamics of capital flows and …
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Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible benefits. These doubts are rarely shared by policy-makers and the population, who are typically...
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agriculture, highlighting scale economies, imperfect competition, and dynamic linkages between trade, incomes, and investment. We …
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A frequently encountered argument against the liberalization of markets for tropical crop commodities is that this may … liberalization. That claim is not supported by examination of the unit value of cocoa imports into the European Union which … intermediaries. There is no evidence of any significant quality problems arising from market liberalization. We conclude that …
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Nation (MFN) trade agreements coincided with the end of a period of unilateral liberalization across the world, and that it …
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