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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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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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The market for cocoa powder
Kox, Henk. L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
The paper analyses the forces that shape demand and supply processes in the market for cocoa powder. A brief statistical summary is given of the main trends in international demand and production, and the spatial shifts in cocoa processing. Ample attention is given to the role of technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076863
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PPP May not Hold for Agricultural Commodities
Gutierrez, Luciano - EconWPA - 2003
We use the well known USDA dataset of real exchange rates to address the question of whether PPP holds for agricultural commodities. Both unit root tests and the recently proposed more powerful class of panel unit root tests, which take into account cross-section correlation across the units in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062609
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Is “Trade” Openness Valid for Nigeria’s Long-Run Growth: A Cointegration Approach?
Kanayo, Ogujiuba; Okechukwu, Oji; Adenuga, Adeniyi - EconWPA - 2004
As a prelude to tariff reduction, the government is currently assessing the implications of significantly reducing tariffs due, in part, to its 2001 agreement with Ghana to quickly implement the ECOWAS Trade Liberalization Scheme. The obvious questions are: Should Nigeria liberalize to all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062614
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TRADE POTENTIAL IN AN ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION: A RECENT APPROACH
Martínez-Galán, Enrique; Fontoura, Maria-Paula; … - EconWPA - 2005
This paper aims to evaluate the trade potential of manufactured products between the members of the EU25 in the threshold of its Eastern enlargement. We estimate, for 2002, a cross-section gravity model, whose coefficients will be used to project the “natural” trade relations between them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062628
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Monitor koffie. Overproductie drukt koffieprijs
Haas, Ralph de - EconWPA - 2002
The current slump in world coffee prices is mainly due to a structural oversupply. Instead of introducing price measures, measures aimed at reducing this excess supply would be a more efficient method of increasing coffee producers'incomes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062639