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Situngkir, Hokky - EconWPA - 2004

This paper is intended to give some alternative positive suggestion on how to cope with the must of the cutting off the oil subsidy domestically. The problem that faced by the government is that the compensation fund will hardly enjoyed by the poor, and moreover it is hard to watch out the whole...

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The smooth transition autoregressive target zone model with the Gaussian stochastic volatility and TGARCH error terms with applications

Korenok, Oleg; Radchenko, Stanislav - EconWPA - 2005

This paper proposes to model the error term in smooth transition autoregressive target zone model as Gaussian with stochastic volatility (STARTZ-SV) or as Student-t with GARCH volatility (STARTZ-TGARCH). Using the dynamics of Norwegian krone exchange rate index, we show that both models produce...

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The Long-Run Forecasting of Energy Prices Using the Model of Shifting Trend

Radchenko, Stanislav - EconWPA - 2005

This paper constructs long-term forecasts of energy prices using a reduced form model of shifting trend developed by Pindyck (1999). A Gibbs sampling algorithm is developed to estimate models with a shifting trend line which are used to construct 10-period-ahead and 15-period ahead forecasts. An...

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Free-Agency and the Competitiveness of Major-League Baseball

II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996

I investigate whether the removal of the reserve clause in professional baseball has affected the competitive nature of the industry in the context of whether teams are actively attempting to monopolize in high- valued inputs. It is possible that a very few teams could purchase all of the best...

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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs

RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims at analysing the relation between competitiveness and economic growth for the period 1995-2000 (2002 … particular relation between the different patterns of competitiveness and regional economic growth. …

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Growth patterns and economic performance of french manufacturing firms

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

depend to a large extent on the ability of companies to exploit their competitiveness, which is dependent on the decisions … investment, decisions. It is first of all necessary to define competitiveness and to suggest a measurement indicator suited to … aggregated accounting data. The link between competitiveness and profitability will be specified and the diversity of the …

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Economic Integration and Trade Competitiveness in Latin America

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2004

There are large differences in gross domestic products by sectors among Latin American countries, and the majority of these differences are due to the value of industrial and service sectors. The structural reforms in countries of Latin America has broadly focused in the five major areas...

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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs

RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005

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Malaysia’s Export Market: Trends, Prospects and Challenges

Chandran V.G.R; Pandiyan, Veera; Madhavan, Karunagaran - EconWPA - 2004

This study examines the trends, prospects and challenges of Malaysia’s export market growth between 1990-2001 using the dynamic shift-share method. Two prevalent regional issues in the recent years that have been the concern of the policy makers in Malaysia have been investigated. First,...

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Production Effects of Agri-environmental Policy Measures: Reconciling Trade and Environmental Objectives

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

of agri-environmental regulations among countries on agricultural production costs and farm competitiveness, and the … international competitiveness? Would an international harmonisation of agri environmental policies increase welfare? Which …

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