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Using the analytical framework of the environmental Kuznets curve, this study examines whether the latecomers economies in East Asia enjoy technological spillover effects (latecomers advantage) or suffer pollution haven damages (latecomers disadvantage) in their environmental pollution...
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Recent theoretical work has revealed a direct connection between asset return volatility forecastability and asset … return sign forecastability. This suggests that the pervasive volatility forecastability in equity returns could, via induced …
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Recent theoretical work has revealed a direct connection between asset return volatility forecastability and asset … return sign forecastability. This suggests that the pervasive volatility forecastability in equity returns could, via induced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363861
In the Doha Round of negotiations on agriculture it has been decided that all developing and least developed Member countries of the WTO will have access to a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). This means that developing countries will now have the option to temporarily impose higher tariff...
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volatility of the real exchange rate. In addition, the sensitivity analysis shows that our model can rationalize more than 97% of … both persistence and volatility of the real exchange rate. Our analysis suggests that the purchasing price parity puzzle …
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taxes is to contain price rise and volatility, to generate revenue, and to increase transparency, these arguments are …, volatility and transaction cost using a three-equation structural model for five top selected commodities namely Gold, Copper … cost and liquidity, and a positive relationship between transaction cost and volatility. Therefore, if the government …
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The first decade of economic and monetary union in Europe (EMU) has been a huge success. EMU has significantly benefited its member countries and accelerated the European integration process. Imbalances within EMUdifferences in growth, inflation, competitiveness, current account and budget...
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The paper investigates the labor market and social impacts of the global financial and economic crisis in Asia and the Pacific as well as national policy responses to the crisis. It draws on recent macroeconomic, trade, production, investment, and remittances data to assess the employment and...
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. First, we examine the channels through which the trilemma policy configurations affect output volatility. Secondly, we … trilemma policy configurations and external finances affect output volatility mainly through the investment channel. While a … volatile, though the volatility-enhancing effect of exchange rate stability on investment can be cancelled by holding higher …
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Despite creating a record of number of jobs in 2007 and 2008 (237,000 jobs in 2007 and 202,400 jobs in the first three quarters of 2008) and averaging a growth rate of nearly 10 percent from 2004 to 2007, Singapore was the first East Asian country to fall into a recession from the current global...
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