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Restrictions on trade in professional services

Nguyen-Hong, Duc - EconWPA - 2001

and engineering services in more than 29 economies, including Australia. The paper also examines the price and cost … effects of restrictions in engineering services. …

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Architectures of Control in Consumer Product Design

Lockton, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

The idea of architectures of control is introduced through examples ranging from urban planning to digital rights management, and the intentions behind their use in consumer products are examined, with reference to case studies of printer cartridges and proposed ‘optimum lifetime products.’...

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Evaluating the Malaysian Export Processing Zones With special focus on the electronic industry

Furby, Mats - EconWPA - 2005

Export Processing Zones are geographical enclaves that have legally been excepted from the country´s normal customs …) have had on Malaysia and on the electronic industry in particular. This study shows that the EPZ has been a success when it …

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Gains and losses: the same or different choices? A “non-ideal” economics approach.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Ideal economics? A “non-ideal” economics approach has been proposed, which considers the possibility of arrangement infringements. It gives promises for both solving fundamental problems of economic theory and creation of new directions and fields of research. The approach application in...

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Gains and losses. The same or different choices?

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...

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Scientific Revolution. A Farewell to EconWPA.

Harin, Alexander - EconWPA - 2005

A revolution in economics. Is it possible? Is its concept a transition from ideal to real economics? The way to the transition may be a new aspect of uncertainty. Problems, which can be solved, research fields, which can be augmented or created, and fields of applications in practical economy...

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Review of TCF Assistance

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...

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An Empirical Test of the Dutch Disease Hypothesis using a Gravity Model of Trade

Stijns, Jean-Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

Although the core model of the Dutch Disease makes unambiguous predictions regarding the negative effect of a resource boom on a country’s manufacturing exports, the empirical literature that has followed has not clearly identified this effect. I attribute this to the failure of the existing...

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De-industrialisation III

Stanners, Walter - EconWPA - 2002

services. Imports of goods must more or less be balanced by the export of domestically produced goods. How can a widespread …

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Emissions Trading and Profitability: The Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry

Brannlund, Runar; Chung, Yangho; Fare, Rolf; Grosskopf, … - EconWPA - 1995

The purpose of this paper is to develop models with and without emissions trading and to compare industry profits under … the two regimes. The model in which emissions trading is permitted is a nonparametric industry frontier model in the … spirit of Fare, Grosskopf and Li (1992). It is relative to this model that industry profit is computed. This profit is …

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