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Quality upgrading and export performance in the Asian growth miracle
Papageorgiou, Chris; Perez-Sebastian, Fidel; Spatafora, … - 2019
We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the changes in these countries' sectoral export shares...
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China's Trade Flows : Changing Price Sensitivies and the Reform Process
Dayal-Gulati, Anuradha - 1999
Over the past 20 years, the Chinese authorities have undertaken wide-ranging reforms of their exchange and trade systems that have steadily reduced the role of planning and increased the importance of market forces. As these reforms have taken root, relative prices and domestic and foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403429
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Determinants of Argentina's External Trade
Falcetti, Elisabetta - 1999
elasticities have increased as a result of structural changes in the economy. It finds that the high income elasticity of imports … and the responsiveness of exports to changes in world commodity prices, domestic absorption, and economic activity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401657
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An Evaluation of the World Economic Outlook Forecasts
Timmermann, Allan - 2006
The World Economic Outlook (WEO) is a key source of forecasts of global economic conditions. It is therefore important to review the performance of these forecasts against both actual outcomes and alternative forecasts. This paper conducts a series of statistical tests to evaluate the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401878
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Product Variety and Economic Growth : Empirical Evidence for the Oecd Countries
Funke, Michael - 2000
This paper uses panel data for 19 OECD countries and finds support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the United States helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399925
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Trade, productivity and (mis)allocation
Berthou, Antoine; Chung, Jong Hyun; Manova, Kalina; … - 2020
We examine the gains from globalization in the presence of firm heterogeneity and potential resource misallocation. We show theoretically that without distortions, bilateral and export liberalizations increase aggregate welfare and productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects....
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The Uruguay Round and Net Food Importers
Eiteljörge, Uwe - 1995
than 4 percent of net food imports over a period of six years for the countries considered, although for some of the larger …
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Proximity and horizontal policies : the backbone of export diversification and complexity
Salinas, Gonzalo - 2021
has fueled the believe that industrial policies are an absolute requisite to diversify exports. This paper, however, does …-country heterogeneity in targeted exports, and four fifths together with horizontal policies. Australia, Chile, and New Zealand emerge as …
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Chile : a role model of export diversification policies?
Salinas, Gonzalo - 2021
Largely because of its vast copper reserves, Chile's exports are highly concentrated on this low complexity product and … the country's success in developing non-mineral and complex exports. This achievement is remarkable considering its … this paper, this accomplishment reflects Chile's strength in policy areas that foster non-mineral exports (including …
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Intelligent export diversification : an export recommendation system with machine learning
Che, Natasha - 2020
This paper presents a set of collaborative filtering algorithms that produce product recommendations to diversify and optimize a country's export structure in support of sustainable long-term growth. The recommendation system is able to accurately predict the historical trends in export content...
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