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Financial Globalization, Portfolio Diversification, and the Pattern of International Trade
Koren, Miklós - 2003
The paper provides a general-equilibrium model where incomplete international financial markets lead to insufficient industrial specialization and low international trade. As international portfolio diversification is limited and productivity is uncertain, investors wish to maintain a...
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Russia and the WTO : The ""Gravity"" of Outsider Status
Lissovolik, Yaroslav - 2004
With China''s accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization''s most prominent nonmember. This paper applies the gravity model to gauge whether this ""outsider"" status has been affecting Russia''s export structure. On the basis of cross-section and panel regressions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404162
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The Changing Structure of Japanese Trade Flows
International Monetary Fund - 1990
The changes to the structure of Japanese exports and imports in the second half of the 1980s departed significantly from past trends. Econometric analysis confirms that some of the structural changes—notably the importance of consumer goods trade—cannot be fully explained using conventional...
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External linkages and policy constraints in Saudi Arabia
Westelius, Niklas J. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726530
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China and Asia in global trade slowdown
Hong, Gee Hee; Yi, Chae-u; Liao, Wei; Seneviratne, Dulani - 2016
Asia and China made disproportionate contributions to the slowdown of global trade growth in 2015. China's import …'s rebalancing are estimated for some 60 countries using value-added trade data, and are found to be more negative on Asia and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711412
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External Linkages and Policy Constraints in Saudi Arabia
Westelius, Niklas - 2013
developing Asia, have strengthened economic links between the Far East and Saudi Arabia. Second, financial sector development in … developing Asia’s growth cycle for the Saudi economy, while the latter suggests greater influence of U.S. monetary policy on the … non-oil economy through the peg to the U.S dollar. As a result, divergence between the growth cycles in developing Asia …
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Trade linkages and international business cycle comovement : evidence from Korean industry data
Lee, Dongyeol - 2019
Through the 2000s, Korea's export and import linkages to advanced and emerging markets increased significantly. At the same time, the correlation of output growth between Korea and these economies rose. This paper investigates the nature of the link between trade linkages and the comovement of...
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The Pattern of International Trade Between Japan and the Pacific Basin Countries : A Comparison Between 1975 and 1985
Shirai, Sayuri - 1995
Using the international input-output tables between Japan and five Pacific Basin countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand) for the years 1975 and 1985, the paper examines the trade structure in 1975 and how it had shifted by 1985. It shows that intra-industry trade in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398712
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The Missing Globalization Puzzle
Bhavnani, Rikhil - 2002
The failure of declining trade-related costs to be reflected in estimates of the standard gravity model of bilateral trade might be called the ""missing globalization puzzle."" This puzzle is most apparent in the estimated distance coefficients found in the literature, which show no evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401460
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Emergence of the Gulf of Guinea in the Global Economy : Prospects and Challenges
Ondo Mañe, Damian - 2005
The Gulf of Guinea''s tremendous potential is creating investment opportunities for the region. Some of its resources, such as oil, minerals, and forests, continue to attract significant investments whereas others, like natural gas, could be exploited to their full potential if necessary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402062