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Togo - Coffee and Cocoa Liberalization
World Bank - 2012
strategy, focused on the liberalization of coffee and cocoa prices, their primary marketing and export, all previously … markets as a reliable supplier of quality products. The liberalization took effect in June 1996. Coffee and cocoa exports …
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Does openness imply greater exposure ?
Calderán, César - 2005
"External exposure can be measured by the sensitivity of first and second moments of economic growth to openness and foreign shocks. This paper provides an empirical evaluation of external exposure using panel data methods for a worldwide sample of countries. Controlling for domestic conditions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522467
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Import demand elasticities and trade distortions
Nicita, Alessandro - 2004
"To study the effects of tariffs on gross domestic product (GDP), one needs import demand elasticities at the tariff line level that are consistent with GDP maximization. These do not exist. Kee, Nicita, and Olarreaga modify Kohli's (1991) GDP function approach to estimate demand elasticities...
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What happens when a country does not adjust to terms of trade shocks? : The case of oil-rich Gabon
Zafar, Ali - 2004
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Market presence, contestability, and the terms-of-trade effects of regional integration
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2001
How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. A preferred supplier market presence and threat of entry lessen a nonmember country's price reaction to most-favored-nation trade liberalization...
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Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills
World Bank - 2013
This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. The authors identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries requires quality...
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Export commodity production and broad-based rural development : coffee and cocoa in the Dominican Republic
Siegel, Paul - 2004
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Colombia : Coffee Sector Study 2002
World Bank - 2013
Colombia is the world's third-largest producer of coffee and by far the largest single producer of washed arabica … coffee. This introduction outlines the global situation in brief and sets the context with a synopsis of Colombia's coffee … history and its unique coffee culture. Chapters 2 and 3 assess the impact of the current coffee situation in both economic and …
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The overhang hangover
Imbs, Jean - 2005
"The authors revisit the debt overhang question. They first use nonparametric techniques to isolate a panel of countries on the downward sloping section of a debt Laffer Curve. In particular, overhang countries are ones where a threshold level of debt is reached in sample, beyond which (initial)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522527
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The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem
Didier, Tatiana - 2009
"The current account can be understood as the outcome of investment decisions made by domestic and foreign investors. These decisions can be decomposed into a portfolio rebalancing and a portfolio growth component. This paper provides empirical evidence of the importance of portfolio rebalancing...
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