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Weak Economy and Strong Currency - The Origins of the Strong Yen in the 1990s

Schnabl, Gunther - EconWPA - 2004

During the 1990’s the Japanese yen proved astonishingly strong despite the persisting recession. This paper tracks the …. Since prices have been exerting their influence on the Japanese currency in the long run, the high yen is explained with … origins of the high yen. It analyses the influence of interest rates, prices and foreign exchange policy on the yen …

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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...

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Purchasing Power Parity: Granger Causality Tests for the Yen- Dollar Exchange Rate

Schnabl, Gunther; Baur, Dirk - EconWPA - 2005

The paper analyses the causality between the Japanese-US relative export prices and the yen-dollar exchange rate. It … explains why the Japanese yen proved strong even during the economic slump of the 1990s. The paper suggests that the … appreciation of the Japanese yen forced the Japanese enterprises into price reductions and productivity increases, which put a …

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Transition in FSU and sub-Saharan countries: The role of institutions

Laurila, Juhani - EconWPA - 2002

This study compares transition processes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and sub-Saharan Africa. By widening the scope from most- to least-developed transition economies, the study establishes the importance of a strong state with evolved institutional...

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Trade Balance Constraints and Optimal Regulation

Quesada, Lucia; Chisari, Omar - EconWPA - 2005

We investigate the interactions between optimal regulation and external credit constraints. When part of a regulated ¯rm is owned by foreign investors, a credit-constrained country who wants to send pro¯ts abroad has to generate enough surplus in the trade account in order to compensate...

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Trading Population for Productivity

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - EconWPA - 2004

This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution has played a significant role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a major determinant of the distribution of world population and a...

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Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Results from a 2x2x2x2 Overlapping Generations Model with Unequal Population Growth Rates

Sayan, Serdar - EconWPA - 2002

This paper considers a two-country world where the population in one country grows faster than the other, and investigates the implications of the addition of non-stationary population dynamics to a simple 2- commodity, 2-factor model of international trade within an overlapping- generations...

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Directions of Trade Flows and Labor Movements between High- And Low-Population Growth Countries: An Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Analysis

Sayan, Serdar; Uyar, Ali Emre - EconWPA - 2002

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Sviluppo e riforme in Cile: apertura commerciale, fondi pensione e privatizzazione dei servizi/REFORMS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHILE: Macro considerations on Int'l Trade, Pension Funds...

Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the growth pattern followed by the Chilean economy with reference to the macroeconomic reforms undertaken during the Pinochet regime, which were largely maintained by successive democratic administrations and partially reproduced by neighbouring countries. The focus is on the...

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A Discussion on Armington Trade Substitution Elasticities

McDaniel, Christine A.; Balistreri, Edward J. - EconWPA - 2003

Applied partial and general equilibrium models used to examine trade policy are almost universally sensitive to trade elasticities. Indeed, the Armington elasticity, the degree of substitution between domestic and imported goods, is a key behavioral parameter that drives the quantitative, and...

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