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Deep Trade Policy Options for Armenia : The Importance of Trade Facilitation, Services and Standards Liberalization

Jensen, Jesper - 2011

In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find...

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Impact of the Monetary Policy Instruments on Islamic Stock Market Index Return

Albaity, Mohamed S. - 2011

Previous studies found that Islamic stock market index in Malaysia (KLSI), does not react, or react negatively to interest rate, although one of the main criteria of Islamic finance is to avoid business and activities that yield interest because of its prohibition in Islamic laws. On the other...

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Labour Market Returns to Higher Education in Vietnam

Doan, Tinh Thanh - 2011

the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) to estimate return to the four-year university education in 2008 …

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Evolution of Competition in Vietnam Industries Over the Recent Economic Transition

Doan, Tinh Thanh - 2012

impact of economic reform and competition on economic growth in Vietnam during the economic transition. In this paper, the … author investigates the evolution of competition in Vietnam during the economic transition using the price-cost margin (PCM … competition across selected industries in Vietnam in the last decade using firm-level data from the Vietnam Enterprise Census (VEC …

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Trade Policy Versus Trade Facilitation : An Application Using 'Good Old' OLS

Marquez-Ramos, Laura - 2012

Trade policy barriers are only one element of overall trade costs. Among these, and due to the decrease in the influence of tariff barriers on trade over time, institutional barriers might increase in relative importance and become a key obstacle to the movements of goods across countries. This...

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A Case Study on Trade Liberalization : Argentina in the 1990s

Beker, Victor A. - 2012

-up process of the Argentine economy nor could it be expected to be a big loser. So, the huge amount of unemployment experienced … by the Argentine economy in the 1990s as well as the widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled labor came as a … was massive destruction of jobs in non-skilled labor-intensive activities. The opening up of the economy significantly …

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Fiscal Policy in Latin America : Better after All?

Daude, Christian - 2011

This paper analyses fiscal policy for several economies in Latin America, from the early nineties to the 2009 crisis. We present original estimates of cyclically-adjusted public revenues for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay implementing the standardised...

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Fiscal Policy Under Imperfect Competition : A Survey

Costa, Luís F. - 2011

This paper surveys the link between imperfect competition and the effects of fiscal policy on output, employment and welfare. We examine static and dynamic models, with and without entry under a variety of assumptions using a common analytical framework. We find that in general there is a robust...

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The Economic Effects of Croatia's Accession to the EU

Lejour, Arjan - 2011

We explore the economic implications of the possible accession of Croatia to the European Union. We focus on two main changes associated with the EU-membership: accession to the internal European Market and institutional reforms in Croatia triggered by the EU-membership. consumption per capita...

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Increased Price Markup from Union Coordination : OECD Panel Evidence

Bjørnstad, Roger - 2010

Although coordination of wage bargaining probably affects entry barriers and competition in product markets, research on price determination has typically not considered such factors. In this paper the price markup depends on coordination and is estimated on a panel of 15 OECD countries. The...

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