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Globalization of the automobile industry : Traditional locations under pressure?

Spatz, Julius - 2002

Even though the automobile industry is technologically advanced, the increasing integration of low-income countries into the global division of labor has put competitive pressure on traditional automobile producing countries. New end-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern...

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Why a market place must not discriminate : the case against a US-EU Free Trade Agreement

Langhammer, Rolf J. - 2008

The paper discusses the pros and cons of a Transatlantic free trade area (TAFTA) against the concept of an informal trade-facilitating marketplace between Europe and the US. It finds considerably more cons expecially since TAFTA would be expected to have ever more discriminatory effects to the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656291

Assessing the effects of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. economy

Strauß, Hubert - 2001

The terrorist attacks of September 11 have challenged the view that the U.S. economy is on the brink of recovery. This article discusses the effects of the attacks on real GDP taking the Kiel Institute's forecast of September 10 as the baseline scenario. The focus is on assessing the direct...

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External drivers of institutional change in Central Asia : regional integration schemes and the role of Russia and China

Schweickert, Rainer - 2012

Russia and China are assumed to challenge democratization and to promote autocracy. In a first step, we analyze Central … Asia as the most-likely case, considering both Russia and China as relevant external actors. We develop a concept for our … analysis based on the different strategies of Russia (dominance) and China (doing-business) towards the region and present the …

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The EU-China bilateral investment agreement in negotiation : motivation, conflicts and perspectives

Bickenbach, Frank - 2015

Since January 2014 China and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating a comprehensive bilateral investment … negotiations between China and the EU have received little public attention so far. Still, a successful conclusion of these … negotiations may be of great importance even beyond the EU-China investment relations. This holds in at least two respects. Firstly …

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Determinants of FDI in developing countries : Has globalization changed the rules of the game?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) and recent empirical evidence on the relative importance of determinants of FDI in developing countries. We show that surprisingly little has changed since...

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EU integration and its implications for Asian economies : what we know and what not

Langhammer, Rolf J. - 2006

In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent papers seem to indicate that the Rose effect seems to be...

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Assessing the allocation of aid : developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer; Triveño, Luis; … - 2005

In this paper, we perform a Tobit analysis of aid allocation, covering the period 1999-2002 and accounting for both altruistic and selfish donor motives. It turns out that poorer countries get clearly more aid from both bilateral and multilateral donors. Most donors are also found to direct...

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Emissions trading, CDM, JI, and more : the climate strategy of the EU

Klepper, Gernot - 2005

The objective of this paper is to assess the likely allocation effects of the current cli-mate protection strategy as it is laid out in the National Allocation Plans (NAPs) for the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The multi-regional, multi-sectoral CGE-model DART is used to simulate the...

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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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