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Díez, Federico J.; Fan, Jiayue; Villegas-Sánchez, Carolina - 2019

power in global markets. First, competition has declined around the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm …

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How do regulations of entry and credit access relate to industry competition? : international evidence

Igan, Deniz; Mirzaei, Ali; Moore, Tomoe - 2018

We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the...

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Measuring competitiveness in a world of global value chains

Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Appendino, Maximiliano; Barkema, Jelle; … - 2018

All common real effective exchange rate indexes assume trade is only in final goods, despite the growing presence of global supply chains. Extending effective exchange rate indexes to include such intermediate goods can imply radically different effective exchange rate weights, depending on the...

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Competitiveness in Transition Economies : What Scope for Real Appreciation?

Krajnyák, Kornélia - 1997

This paper estimates equilibrium dollar wages for 15 transition economies. Equilibrium dollar wages are interpreted as full employment wages consistent with a country’s physical and human capital endowment, and estimated by regressing actual dollar wages on productivity and human capital...

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Intellectual Property Rights and International RandD Competition

Scandizzo, Stefania - 2001

participation in the World Trade Organization, or, more controversially, some form of bilateral punishment, may be used …

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Carbon Taxes : Their Macroeconomic Effects and Prospects for Global Adoption: A Survey of the Literature

Gandhi, Ved P. - 1998

The carbon tax is a major instrument for curbing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Yet its adoption has been limited because of concerns over its effects on economic growth, income distribution, and international competitiveness. The paper shows that policymakers can minimize...

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Competitiveness Indicators : A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment

Marsh, Ian W. - 1994

This paper discusses five indicators of competitiveness: real exchange rates based on consumer price indices, export unit values of manufacturing goods, the relative price of traded to nontraded goods, normalized unit labor costs in manufacturing, and the ratio of normalized unit labor costs to...

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Measures of External Competitiveness for Germany

Feldman, Robert Alan - 1994

This paper assesses Germany's external competitive position from several angles. It first examines movements in several … export prospects. A key conclusion of the analysis is that the deterioration of Germany's external competitiveness suggested …

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Scaling up climate mitigation policy in Germany

Black, Simon; Chen, Ruo; Mineshima, Aiko; Mylonas, Victor; … - 2021

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Destabilizing the global monetary system : Germany's adoption of the gold standard in the early 1870s

Wiegand, Johannes - 2019

In 1871-73, newly unified Germany adopted the gold standard, replacing the silver-based currencies that had been … block. Why did Germany switch to gold and set the train of destructive events in motion? Both a review of the … France, which would have severed the link between gold and silver currencies. Without reform, Germany would thus have risked …

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