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(China) and India - in trade, investments and infrastructure development can foster outward-oriented development and economic …
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of subregional and bilateral trade agreements. This paper analyzes the recent trends and patterns and nature of regional … trade and cooperation agreements (RTCAs) in Asia and associated problems and prospects. It also attempts to understand the … for the emergence of new regional trade in blocs of several subregional groupings. …
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This paper studies foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on gender labor market practices of domestic firms, based …
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We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information.
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prevents the emergence of trade in services, at considerable potential cost to firms operating in the EU. The paper discusses …
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to be tempered by long-term commitment considerations, so that profit sharing may dominate pure price caps. Investment …
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view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to …
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This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology-spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from...
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We augment the canonical neoclassical model of trade to allow for interstate disputes over land, oil, water, or other … resources. The costs of such disputes in terms of arming depend on the trade regime in place. Under either autarky or free trade …, the larger country (in terms of factor endowments) need not to be more powerful. Yet, under free trade, there is a …
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Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...
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