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Resources and North-South trade: a macro analysis in open economies

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

The paper explores the impacts of resource export policies on major macro variables of the exporter and the importer … outcomes are obtained when the exporting economy is more homogeneous, and sufficient conditions are given for an export policy … to improve the welfare of the exporting country, as well as its international terms of trade and export revenues. …

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Inward Processing Trade and the Romanian foreign trade

Georgescu, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The paper underlines the importance of the Inward Processing Trade (IPT), supporting it by the standard examples from South East Asia. The author tries to estimate the IPT for the case of Romania using the available data and taking into considerations the benefits both in the long and short run...

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The competitive advantage in The Middle East. An empirical approach

Scorbureanu, Alexandrina Ioana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper explores the determinants of bilateral trade flows among Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories during the last 15 years. A gravity model is applied to international trade flows and empirically tested in order to investigate the relationship between the volume and direction of...

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Perceptions of international trade barriers: Empirical study of small apparel firms

Chakrabarty, Subhajit; Nag, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Perceptions of international trade barriers are important in the decision of firms to export.This study makes an …, lack of knowledge (in particular, lack of staff for export planning) was found to be the most important barrier as ….Policy makers may note these and focus their export promotion and information dissemination plans based on cluster membership so as …

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Sectoral and geographical positioning of the EU in the international division of labour

Cheptea, Angela; Gaulier, Guillaume; Sondjo, Dieudonné; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

shares, their geographical and sectoral specialisation, export performance, and capacity to adapt to changes in the global …

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Do good institutions enhance the effect of technological spillovers on productivity? Comparative evidence from developed and transition economies

Krammer, Sorin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper argues that institutional quality has both direct and indirect (moderating) effects on productivity of countries. These hypotheses are tested using a battery of institutional proxies (governance, economic freedom, intellectual property rights and ease of doing business) and two...

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The tropical timber industry in Gabon: a forward linkages approach to industrialisation

Terheggen, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

advantage lies in the exploitation of its natural resource tropical timber for export markets. Logging is also a 'superior …

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Consecuencias económicas del enclaustramiento marítimo sobre las exportaciones bolivianas

Burgoa, Rodrigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In the actual paper, it is analyzed the economic impact that landlockedness causes to Bolivia since more than a century. It is found that economic damages are enormous and they did not end, yet. Applying some estimations through econometric models, it is observed that every year, Bolivia loses...

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Atlas of wooden furniture industry in Jepara, Indonesia

Roda, Jean-Marc; Cadène, Philippe; Guizol, Philippe; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this document, we study the industrial district of Jepara, Indonesia. It is specialised in furniture production, for the Indonesian consumption, as well as for worldwide exports. We summarize the main features of the dynamics of the firms involved in the Jepara industrial complex with a...

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Interprovincial Barriers to Internal Trade in Goods, Services and Flows of Capital: Policy, Knowledge Gaps and Research Issues

Macmillan, Kathleen; Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper summarizes the state of knowledge on internal barriers to trade in goods, services and flows of capital, examines their cost to the economy, and presents some options for addressing the important barriers that remain. A companion paper examines barriers to labour mobility in Canada...

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