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Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ?

Calderón, César - 2009

exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real … openness to exacerbate or mitigate real exchange rate volatility. The authors collected information on the real effective …) High real exchange rate volatility is the result of highly volatile productivity shocks, and sharp oscillations in monetary …

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Beyond the information technology agreement : harmonization of standards and trade in electronics

Portugal-Pérez, Alberto - 2009

"Product standards can have a dual impact on production and trade costs. Standards may impose additional costs on exporters as it may be necessary to adapt products for specific markets (cost-effect). In contrast, standards can reduce exporters' information costs if they convey information on...

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Does regionalism affect trade liberalization toward non-members ?

Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2008

"This paper examines the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied most-favored nation tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001. The findings show that preferential tariff reduction in a given sector...

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Regionalism in standards : good or bad for trade?

Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang - 2004

"Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and unconditionally blessed by multilateral trade rules. Chen and Mattoo find, theoretically and empirically, that such agreements increase trade between participating countries but not necessarily with the rest of the...

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Trade policy analysis in the presence of duty drawbacks

Ianchovichina, Elena - 2004

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The dot-com bubble, the Bush deficits, and the U.S. current account

Kraay, Aart - 2005

"Over the past decade the United States has experienced widening current account deficits and a steady deterioration of its net foreign asset position. During the second half of the 1990s, this deterioration was fueled by foreign investment in a booming U.S. stock market. During the first half...

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Agricultural extension by training and visit : the Asian experience

Cernea, Michael M. (ed.) - 1983

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Investment strategies for agricultural and natural resources : investing in knowledge for development

Persley, Gabrielle J. (ed.) - 1998

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Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's "missing girls" phenomenon ?

Das Gupta, Monica - 2009

"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much … ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether …" phenomenon could be addressed in Asia. "--World Bank web site …

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Health systems in East Asia : what can developing countries learn from Japan and the Asian tigers ?

Wagstaff, Adam - 2005

(China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …

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