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Export Competitiveness in the Indian auto-component industry : Does Low Wage Cost matter?
Saripalle, Madhuri - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
costs, any difference in export performances could arise because of higher productivity of labor. The paper tests whether … multinational firms, it is not just cheap labor in terms of low wage rate per worker, but low wage in relation to productivity of … more than the productivity of the labor. Among other factors discussed, of the reasons is the low value added nature of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363327
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The 2008 Financial Crisis and Potential Output in Asia : Impact and Policy Implications
Park, Cyn-Young; Majuca, Ruperto P.; Yap, Josef T. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
attributed to the investment-GDP ratio, macroeconomic policies, exchange rate behavior, and productivity which is proxied by the …
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A General Equilibrium Open Economy Model for Emerging Markets - Monetary Policy with a Dualistic Labor Market
Goyal, Ashima - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
An optimizing model of a small open emerging market economy (SOEME) with dualistic labour markets and two types of consumers, delivers a tractable model for monetary policy. Differences between the SOEME and the SOE are derived. Parameters depend on features of the labour market and on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365480
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FORECASTING INTEREST RATES - A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOME SECOND GENERATION NON-LINEAR MODELS
Nachane, Dilip M.; Clavel, Jose G. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
. These models are applied to weekly data on interest rates in India, and their forecasting performance is evaluated vis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365437
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Central Asia : Mapping Future Prospects
Dowling, Malcolm; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Central Asia has emerged as one of the worlds fastest growing regions since the late 1990s and has shown notable development potential. This is significant for a region comprising largely of small landlocked economies with no access to the sea for trade. Among the advantages, of the region are...
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An Analysis of Life Insurance Demand Determinants for Selected Asian Economies and India
Sen, Subir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
panel are significant for India for the period 1965 to 2004. Some variables were strongly capable of determining life …
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Analyzing and Forecasting Business Cycles in a Small Open Economy : A Dynamic Factor Model for Singapore
Chow, Hwee Kwan; Choy, Keen Meng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
A dynamic factor model is applied to a large panel dataset of Singapores macroeconomic variables and global economic indicators with the initial objective of analyzing business cycles in a small open economy. The empirical results suggest that four common factors are present in the quarterly...
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277966
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278236
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Exports, Productivity, and Credit Constraints : A Firmâ€ÂLevel Empirical Investigation of China
Li, Zhiyuan; Yu, Miaojie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Recent Melitz-type (2003) intra-industry heterogonous trade models argue that a firm's productivity has significant … effects on the firm's exports. This paper examines how a firms credit constraints as well as its productivity affect its …
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