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Economy Wide Impact of the Trade Integration between Japan and India: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswa Nath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - CESifo - 2013
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The CEPA will eliminate tariff on goods that account for 94% of their two way trade over ten years and will boost bilateral trade and investment. Indian exports which were subject...
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Understanding the Latest Wave and Future Shape of Regional Trade and Cooperation Agreements in Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - CESifo - 2006
Asia accounts for more than 30% of world GDP and contributes half of the global growth in recent years. Despite high … growth rates, Asia is still facing considerable socio-economic challenges. If Asia is to reemerge as a major power in the … region’s economies more integrated regionally and internationally. Following the recent global trend, Asia witnessed a wave …
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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty: A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N.; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - CESifo - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty traps created by information problems and incorrect...
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Catastrophic Medical Expenditure Risk
Flores, Gabriela; O'Donnell, Owen - CESifo - 2013
Medical expenditure risk can pose a major threat to living standards. We derive decomposable measures of catastrophic medical expenditure risk from reference-dependent utility with loss aversion. We propose a quantile regression based method of estimating risk exposure from cross-section data...
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International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - CESifo - 2009
America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004, and carries out “second-generation” tests for non-stationary panels …
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Sources of Real Exchange Rate Volatility and International Financial Integration: A Dynamic GMM Panel Approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - CESifo - 2011
grouped into three regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). Our findings suggest that different types of shocks (external, real …
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877698
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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877727
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Simply a Matter of Luck & Looks? Predicting Elections when Both the World Economy and the Psychology of Faces Count
Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - CESifo - 2014
Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...
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Economic Growth and Judicial Independence, a Dozen Years On: Cross-Country Evidence Using an Updated Set of Indicators
Voigt, Stefan; Gutmann, Jerg; Feld, Lars P. - CESifo - 2014
Over 10 years ago, Feld and Voigt (2003) introduced the first indicator for objectively meas-uring the actual independence of the judiciary and demonstrated its utility in a large cross-section of countries. The indicator has been widely used, but also criticized. This paper pre-sents more...
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