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Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ?
Calderón, César - 2009
"The "New Open Economy Macroeconomics" argues that: (a) non-monetary factors have gained importance in explaining exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real and nominal shocks to real exchange rates. The goal of...
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A note on rising food prices
Mitchell, Donald O. - 2008
"The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their household incomes on food. This paper examines the factors behind the rapid increase in internationally traded food prices since 2002 and estimates the contribution of various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521077
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International migration, human capital, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Philippine migrants' exchange rate shocks
Yang, Dean - 2005
"Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and household enterprises? Yang examines Philippine...
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Tango with the gringo : the hard peg and real misalignment in argentina
Serven, Luis - 2004
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Optimal investment allocation and exchange rate management in oil exporting countries : a normative analysis of the Dutch disease
Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 1981
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Learning from megadisasters : lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Ranghieri, Federica (ed.); Ishiwatari, Mikio (ed.) - World Bank - 2014
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The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009
"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394120
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University-local industry linkages : the case of Tohoku University in the Sendai area of Japan
Jiang, Juan - 2006
"This paper focuses on Tohoku University in Sendai in the nonmetropolitan area of Japan. Both a long historical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522071
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Health systems in East Asia : what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers ?
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan …. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing … with regulated prices to uninsured services with unregulated prices. Japan, in its approach to rate-setting for insured …
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Japan's changing industrial landscape
Yusuf, Shahid - 2005
innovativeness at many levels. The authors discuss six main developments that are changing the industrial landscape in Japan and in …
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