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Exchange Rate Uncertainty and Import Demand of Thailand
Jiranyakul, Komain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study investigates the impact of real exchange rate uncertainty on import demand of Thailand. The period of study is during July 1997 to December 2011. The results from bounds testing for cointegration show that all variables are cointegrated. Even though there is no short-run impact, but...
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Openness-Inflation Nexus in South Caucasus Economies
Aliyev, Khatai; Gasimov, Ilkin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Following Romer (1993), openness-inflation nexus has been subject to many empirical researches. However, South Caucasus economies are not studied yet. The aim of this research is to fill this gap in empirical literature by using multiple regression models and impulse-response function analysis...
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Factors affecting the decision making of out-sourcing in textile in Pakistan
Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Osman, Ms.Amber - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This research provided the study of importance of factors affecting the decision making of out-sourcing & supplier performance in Textiles domain. The textile market of USA is the scope of this research. The basis of this study allowed comprehending the importance / weight of factors of...
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Towards an explicit modeling of trade facilitation in CGE models: evidence from Egypt
Zaki, Chahir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper develops a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model incorporating trade facilitation aspects. This paper’s contributions are twofold: theoretical and empirical. First, this paper attempts to model trade facilitation explicitly in a dynamic CGE model applied. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602753
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Explaining Trade Flows: Traditional and New Determinants of Trade Patterns
Gourdon, Julien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
An empirical tradition in international trade seeks to establish whether the predictions of factor abundance theory match with the data. The relation between factor endowments and trade in goods (commodity version of Hecksher-Ohlin) provide mildly encouraging empirical results. But in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789301
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Skill Intensity Reversal and the Rising Skill Premium: Evidence from the U.S. and Mexico
Kurokawa, Yoshinori - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Rising skill premium in two countries can be explained simply by the Heckscher-Ohlin model assuming a “skill intensity reversal.” This assumption, however, poses an empirical challenge since past research has found little evidence for the so-called “factor intensity reversal.” We now...
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Impact of Selectivity and Neutrality of trade Policy Incentives on Industrialization of Developing Countries; Implications for NAMA Negotiations
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices of developed countries and East Asian countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014719
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Factor Proportions Wages in a Structural Vector Autoregression
Kim, Hyeongwoo; Thompson, Henry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Factor proportions trade theory focuses on wage adjustments to product prices and factor endowments estimated directly for the first time in the present paper with a structural vector auto regression. Yearly data cover the US wage, labor force, fixed capital assets, and relative prices of...
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International Trade and Local Outsourcing
Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei; Xu, Xinpeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
outsourcing due to the capital cost effect and the scale effect. We also unveil one source of productivity and formalize a link … between trade and productivity. We illustrate that both the scale effect and the flourish of entrepreneurial talent due to … capital cost effect contribute to the improvement of productivity. For the import competing sector the productivity effect and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559019
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Competitiveness of the Hong Kong economy
Li, Hongyi; Wei, Xiangdong; Xie, Danyang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
competitors in East Asia, especially in export sector. On the aggregate level, although Hong Kong’s Total Factor Productivity (TFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258060