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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 …
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attributed to the investment-GDP ratio, macroeconomic policies, exchange rate behavior, and productivity which is proxied by the …
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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...
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. These models are applied to weekly data on interest rates in India, and their forecasting performance is evaluated vis …
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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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panel are significant for India for the period 1965 to 2004. Some variables were strongly capable of determining life …
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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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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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This paper explores how processing trade, jointly with tariff reduction, can improve a firm's productivity. Tariff … reductions generate productivity gain via competition, whereas processing export does so via spillovers. Using mostly …% increase in a firm's productivity gain. In addition, processing firms enjoy significant productivity gains via spillovers, with …
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the productivity growth until the late 1980s. Third, estimation of the production function model proves that IT capital …. Second, growth accounting analysis reveals that information technology has not contributed changes of productivity growth …
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