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TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF U.S.-EAST ASIA COMMODITY TRADE, 1962-1992
Singh, Nirvikar; Carolan, Terrie - EconWPA - 2004
We examine the composition of bilateral trade between the United States and each of eight Asian Pacific economies from 1962 to 1992. Two complementary time series analyses of individual commodities at the SITC four-digit level indicate that significant change occurred in trade composition during...
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Argentina: Trying to Make Sense of the Financial Tango
Buchs, Thierry - EconWPA - 2005
The paper discusses and revisits some of the most popular stories behind the 2001 financial crisis in Argentina, i.e. the prolonged overvaluation of the peso owing to the Currency Board arrangement, the lack of fiscal adjustment, and the negative external environment which triggered a “sudden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076729
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China's Changing Competitive Position: Lessons from a Unit-Labor- Cost-Based REER
Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005
This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124915
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: What Are the Consequences of China’s WTO Entry for India’s Trade?
Cerra, Valerie; Rivera, Sandra A.; Saxena, Sweta C. - EconWPA - 2005
One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China’s WTO accession for India’s trade, using both econometrics and … computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The paper analyzes how India stands to lose or gain from China’s WTO entry in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062637
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Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China
Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … agreement with China on sectoral and aggregate employment rates. According to this, trade with the PRC did not have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062638
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Tango with the Dragon: Employment Effects of Trade Integration with China. The Case of Argentina
Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina … labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects of trade with China on the employment rate. According to this …, trade with China did not have a significant effect on industrial employment, even in a period of swift trade liberalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408025
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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997
Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the Americas and East Asia in the past two centuries. Between 1830 and 1945, labor-abundant Britain, the most advanced country, traded heavily with land-abundant countries in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062412
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Managerial and Customer Costs of Price Adjustment: Direct Evidence from Industrial Markets
Zbaracki, Mark; Ritson, Mark; Levy, Daniel; Dutta, Shantanu - EconWPA - 2004
We study the price adjustment practices and provide quantitative measurement of the managerial and customer costs of price adjustment using data from a large U.S. industrial manufacturer and its customers. We find that price adjustment costs are a much more complex construct than the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076839
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Un Enfoque de Teoría de Juegos del Sistema Privado de Pensiones Peruano
Cespedes, Nikita - EconWPA - 2005
El docuemnto se dedica al estudio del comportamiento de las AFP del Sistema Privado de Pensiones peruano. El trabajo utiliza el marco de análisis de la teoría de juegos repetidos y aspectos complementarios de la teoría de la colusión implícita para aproximar el comportamiento de los agentes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076874
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Impact of Market Entry and Exit on EU Productivity and Growth Performance
Cincera, Michele; Galgau, Olivia - EconWPA - 2005
The European Union and its Member States have been engaged in product market reforms over a long period with notable reforms including the Single Market Program and the Lisbon Agenda launched in March 2000. Product market reforms are seen as exerting both a direct and an indirect impact on...
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