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Intra-Industry Trade of Arab Countries : An Indicator of Potential Competitiveness
Kunzel, Peter - 1997
-industry trade (IIT) index as an indicator of the degree of industrial specialization to study Arab countries’ ability to compete in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401214
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Corruption, Public Investment, and Growth
Tanzi, Vito - 1997
Corruption, particularly political or “grand” corruption, distorts the entire decision-making process connected with public investment projects. The degree of distortions is higher with weaker auditing institutions. The evidence presented shows that higher corruption is associated with (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401205
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Trade Openness and Volatility
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2008
This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, sectors more open to international trade are more volatile. Second, trade is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401281
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Trade Sensitivity to Exchange Rates in the Context of Intra-Industry Trade
Oguro, Yoko - 2008
This paper theoretically and empirically investigates export sensitivity to exchange rates in the context of intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401635
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Determinants of Barter in Russia : An Empirical Analysis
Mumssen, Christian - 2000
This paper analyzes the causes and consequences of non-monetary transactions in Russia, drawing on a large enterprise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403499
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Macroeconomic effects of reforms on three diverse oil exporters : Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UK
Beidas-Strom, Samya; Lorusso, Marco - 2019
We build and estimate open economy two-bloc DSGE models to study the transmission and impact of shocks in Russia, Saudi …: Russia would benefit from a smaller state foot-print, while in Saudi Arabia, unless this is accompanied by structural reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112123
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Russia and the WTO : The ""Gravity"" of Outsider Status
Lissovolik, Yaroslav - 2004
applies the gravity model to gauge whether this ""outsider"" status has been affecting Russia''s export structure. On the … various WTO procedures, although own-export restrictions could have a similar effect. The model points to Russia''s further …With China''s accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization''s most prominent nonmember. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404162
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The Role of Inter- and Intraindustry Trade in Technology Diffusion
Hakura, Dalia - 1999
export sectors. The results of empirical tests for 87 countries during 1970–93 support this hypothesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400972
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Trade, Finance, Specialization, and Synchronization
Imbs, Jean - 2003
The paper investigates the determinants of business cycles synchronization across regions. It uses both international and intranational data to evaluate the linkages between trade in goods, trade in financial assets, specialization and business cycles synchronization using a system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403828
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Barriers to trade in financial and insurance services : evidence from the United Kingdom
Podpiera, Jiří - 2021
suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796259