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Value Creation and Profit Optimization
Winther, K. Tobias - EconWPA - 2002
The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...
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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis
Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004
Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of trade liberalization can only be properly analysed in a CGE model. However, the aggregate nature of CGE models is not suited to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407655
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125644
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Technological Developments and their Effects on World Trade: Any Implications for Governments?
Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2001
This paper summarizes new developments in world trade, technological changes worldwide and their implications for recent theoretical studies in economics. After defining the economic globalization and schematizing its relations with international trade, economic growth and technological change,...
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Seasonal Fluctuations and International Trade
Kaneda, Mitsuhiro; Mehrez, Gil - EconWPA - 1998
This paper argues that seasonal fluctuations in international trade are large and have non-trivial effects on a country's resource allocation, production, and welfare. Using U.S. quarterly data, we find fluctuations of as much as 43% and 15% for apparel imports and exports respectively, and 7%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119255
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Productivity Growth in China: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Ao, Xiang; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005
mainly to fast increase of inputs. Young (2000) also estimated the TFP growth rate of China to be 1.4% per year during the … the non-agricultural economy (of China) during the reform period is respectable, but not outstanding.' China's real GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062403
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The Travails of Current Macroeconomic and Exchange Rate Management in China: The Complications of Switching to a New Growth Engine
Woo, Wing Thye - EconWPA - 2003
Just when China’s leaders receive conflicting signals of “overheating” and “below-potential growth”, they encounter … challenges have their roots in China’s inadequate marketization and continued discrimination against the domestic private sector … themselves into nonperforming loans. In partially-reformed China, public-directed investments via the state enterprises tend to …
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Has world poverty really fallen during the 1990s?
Reddy, Sanjay G.; Minoiu, Camelia - EconWPA - 2005
about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the … the extent and trend of poverty in China, India, and the rest of the developing world, world poverty may or may not have …
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Spatial Price Differences in China: Estimates and Implications
Brandt, Loren; Holz, Carsten - EconWPA - 2005
economic outcomes in China. In this article, we construct a set of (rural, urban, total) provincial- level spatial price … provide illustrations of the significant effect of ignoring spatial price differences in the analysis of China’s economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413246
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Chinese Regional Agricultural Productivity in the 1990'a
Tong, Haizhi; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005
A nonstochastic Malmquist Index and a stochastic frontier production function are estimated to examine agricultural productivity growth in Chinese provinces during the 1990’s. Results for both methods indicate high productivity growth in the mid 1990’s with a declining trend thereafter....
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