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Myanmar's apparel industry in the new international environment : prospects and challenges
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
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Wieviel Potenzial steckt in den BRICS?
Ebner, Verena; Mumme, Christina; Lueghammer, Wolfgang; … - FIW - 2014
Die vorliegende Studie zum Potenzial der BRICS-Staaten für die österreichische Außenwirtschaft diskutiert in einem ersten Schritt aktuelle makroökonomische Entwicklungen und strukturelle Aspekte der fünf BRICS-Staaten sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft. In einem...
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Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der österreichischen Exportwirtschaft: Die Rolle der KMUs
Oberhofer, Harald - FIW - 2014
Für Österreich als kleine offene Volkswirtschaft ist die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit seiner Un-ternehmen für den wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand entscheidend. Darüber hinaus prägen kleine und mittel-ständische Unternehmen (KMUs) die Struktur der heimischen Wirtschaft. Somit sind sie...
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Export Competitiveness of Textile Commodities: A Panel Data Approach
Arora, Tarun - FIW - 2015
The Paper assesses the export competitiveness of top fifteen textile products (different for each export destination …) at 6 digit level of HS classification exported by India to top seven textile export destinations by using both price and … income export elasticities. The export elasticities are estimated using dynamic panel data approach for each country …
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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains
Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...
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Patterns and Determinants of International Trade Costs in the Food Industry
Olper, Alessandro; Raimondi, Valentina - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2007
This paper documents patterns in international trade costs in processed foods for a large cross-section of developing and developed countries, during the 1976-2000 period. A trade costs index is inferred from a micro-founded gravity equation that incorporates bilateral `iceberg?trade costs. For...
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The Shrimp Export Boom and Small-Scale Fishermen in Myanmar
Okamoto, Ikuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of the recent shrimp export boom in Myanmar on the economic state of small …-scale fishermen. Results indicate that there has been an active increase in shrimp fishing stimulated by expanding export demand. With …
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A Dynamic North-South Model of Demand-Induced Product Cycles
Foellmi, Reto; Hanslin, Sandra; Kohler, Andreas - FIW - 2015
This paper presents a dynamic North-South general-equilibrium model where households have non-homothetic preferences. Innovation takes place in a rich North while norms in a poor South imitate products manufactured in North. Introducing non-homothetic preferences delivers a complete...
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Knowlegde Spillovers, absorptive capacity and growth: An industry-level Analysis for OECD countries
Bournakis, Ioannis; Christopoulos, Dimitris; Mallick, … - FIW - 2015
Spillovers have usually been undertaken at the country level, the spillover effects can be more definitive only if the analysis is conducted at the industry-level. This paper therefore attempts to identify spillovers by disentangling technological innovations into intra- and inter-national...
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Managerial Incentives and Compensation in a Global Market
Wu, Yanhui - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
This paper embeds a principal-agent firm in an otherwise standard trade model a la Melitz (2003) to investigate the impact of globalization on the provision of managerial incentives and on the distribution of managerial compensation. Facing contractual frictions due to limited liability, firms...
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