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Single-desk marketing: assessing the economic arguments

Gropp, Lisa; Hallam, Tom; Manion, Vince - EconWPA - 2002

Single-Desk Marketing: Assessing the Economic Arguments identifies the potential benefits and costs and the strengths and weakness of various arguments in favour of current single-desk arrangements. It does not attempt to quantify the costs and benefits of arrangements in any particular industry.

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Matchmakers in Wine Marketing Channels : The Case of French Wine Brokers

Baritaux, Virginie; Aubert, Magali; Montaigne, Etienne; … - EconWPA - 2005

Wine brokers are wholesale intermediaries. They belong to the category of the matchmaker intermediaries. These … middlemen are not well known. Their role is to help buyers and sellers of bulk wine to meet and transact. Assuming that wine …, negotiation costs, and monitoring and enforcement costs of a transaction on bulk wine. A data base of contracts on bulk vins de …

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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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Learning to Love Globalization? Education and Individual Attitudes Toward International Trade

Hainmueller, Jens; Hiscox, Michael J. - EconWPA - 2005

Recent studies of public attitudes toward trade have converged upon one central finding: support for trade restrictions is highest among respondents with the lowest levels of education. This has been interpreted as strong support for the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, the classic economic treatment...

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