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Diesel and hybrid technologies each have the potential to increase light-duty vehicle fuel economy by a third or more without loss of performance, yet these technologies have typically been excluded from technical assessments of fuel economy potential on the grounds that hybrids are too...
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In this paper we used a data set constructed for a companion paper (Fritsche/Stephan, 2000) where we explored the leading indicator properties of different time series for the German business cycle. Now we test for the ability of different indicator series to forecast recessions by using a...
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The study examines the reasons for financial crises in 31 emerging market countries during 1980-2001. It estimates a probit model using 23 macroeconomic and financial sector variables. Traditional variables such as unemployment and inflation, as well as several indicators of indebtedness such as...
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We model daily catches of fishing boats in the Grand Bank fishing grounds. We use data on catches per species for a number of vessels collected by the European Union in the context of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization. Many variables can be thought to influence the amount caught: a...
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deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be …-cyclical in China over the past two decades. …
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This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It …
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This article discusses the probability of growth of neoliberalism in modern China and its implications for Chinese … constitutionalism. A China polity under the vision of a neo-liberal regime engenders problems of prescribing a legal system and … historicity of Western liberalism and China's ontological base in tradition, being Confucianism. The historic excesses and abuses …
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In this paper we apply a simple macro model to explore and evaluate certain optimal monetary policy rules for China …'s economy. To be more consistent with the central bank (the People's Bank of China)'s behaviour, we use money supply as a …
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direct investments in Mainland China provide robust support to the hypothesis. A project that was located 1000 kilometers …
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This paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of income poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as … within a reasonable range, a remarkable reduction in consumption poverty occurred in China during the 1990s. However …, estimates of the extent of Chinese poverty in any year are greatly influenced by the assumptions made. China’s record of …
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