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trade liberalization. …
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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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and economic liberalization affect governments’ respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981 …
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To sell their surpluses of maize, the main staple in Benin, farmers may choose among three modes of transaction: they may sell under a contract with itinerant traders, or they may sell without a contract at the farmgate or on distant markets. It has been postulated that farmers may choose a...
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of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital ac-cumulation, income and … inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … decreases and the liberalization path has stochastic dominance over the Baseline-As-Usual. These results are very robust to our …
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. This paper shows that such economic transparency could give central banks greater flexibility to respond to macroeconomic …
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As a result of a large number of food scandals, societal interest in transparency in the food sector has grown … address. Hence, the creation of transparency in the production process has been the focus of the legislation. In this context … foods. This is intended as a response to the general call for more transparency or a "gläserne Produktion ". It has not been …
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Central bank independence and transparency have become best practice in monetary policy. This paper cautions that … transparency about economic information may not be beneficial in the absence of central bank independence. The reason is that it …
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In currency exchange markets, there is a conflict between individual decisions and the socially optimal solution. Whereas agents have a coordination motive to take the same position, at the social level effective market coordination per se is not socially valuable, and the central bank aims at...
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We present a research plan to assess the value of transparency by comparing pork supply chains in The Netherlands and … quality control institutions. We define chain configuration in terms of structure and transparency. In order to be able to …
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