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RTAs and WTO Compatibility: Catch Me If You Can? The Case of EPA Negotiations
Cernat, Lucian; Onguglo, Bonapas - In: Journal of Economic Integration 23 (2008), pp. 489-517
negotiations. Taking the current EPA negotiations between ACP and EU as an example, this paper examines two sorts of questions: (i … the implications for ACP countries of some of the proposals to reform GATT Art. XXIV, in particular the “substantially all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415593
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South – East Asian Integration in the Context of OIC: Implications of Free Trade among Malaysia, Indonesia and Bangladesh
ACAR, Mustafa; ALPAY, Savas - In: Journal of Economic Integration 24 (2009), pp. 1-18
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest intergovernmental organization after UN with its 57 members. OIC accounts for 22.48 percent of world population, 6.64 percent of world GDP, and 9.1 percent of world trade as of 2007. When it comes to having world valuable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415583
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China’s Real Exchange Rate Puzzle
Tyers, Rod; Golley, Jane - In: Journal of Economic Integration 23 (2008), pp. 547-574
International pressure to revalue China’s currency stems in part from the expectation that rapid economic growth should be associated with a real exchange rate appreciation. This hinges on the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis under which economic growth is due to relative tradable productivity...
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Real Convergence in the New Member States: Myth or Reality?
Ingianni, Andrea; Žd’árek, Václav - In: Journal of Economic Integration 24 (2009), pp. 294-320
The paper analyses the process of real convergence of the New Member States of the European Union. Its importance is … robust economic growth, which had a stronger impact on the convergence process within the EU8 group than to EU15. Our … assumptions are investigated empirically by a comparison of beta and sigma-convergence analysis with time-series based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415598
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Income Convergence in the Asia-Pacific Region
Michelis, Leo; Neaime, Simon - In: Journal of Economic Integration 19 (2004), pp. 470-498
This paper uses the concepts of σ-convergence and β-convergence to evaluate empirically the hypothesis of income … convergence in the Asia-Pacific region, and its subsets of East Asia and ASEAN during the period 1960-1999. Because of the East … for the period 1960-1999. For the former period, we find evidence of conditional β-convergence in a group of 17 APEC …
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What Does WTO Membership Kindle in Transition Economies?: An Empirical Investigation
F. Campos, Nauro - In: Journal of Economic Integration 19 (2004), pp. 395-415
Many believe that an important benefit from membership in international organizations is the lessening of political constraints to domestic reforms which would, ultimately, generate greater trade openness, FDI inflows and economic growth. These ideas have received limited empirical testing. This...
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Ins and Outs of Asia’s Financial Crisis
Cabalu, Helen - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 326-345
This article examines the consequences and policy implications of the Asian crisis. It discusses the way in which the crisis unfolded through 1997 and provids a typology of the potential effects of the crisis. It also discusses the general impact the crisis has made on the global economy...
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International Demand Spillovers in South-South Exports: Application to Sub-Saharan Africa and Developing Asia
Tran, Thi Anh-Dao; Diaw, Diadié; Rieber, Arsène - In: Journal of Economic Integration 27 (2012), pp. 410-436
This paper aims at analyzing how export performance of developing countries differs across destinations. With application to Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, we first employ a gravity equation to break down each region’s export performance, separating the contribution of foreign market access from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840765
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Income Inequality in the South–South Integration
Sperlich, Yvonne; Sperlich, Stefan - In: Journal of Economic Integration 29 (2014), pp. 726-758
are placed in relation to growth models and beta convergence as other studies have found ambivalent results for growth and … convergence in South-South integration areas. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094118
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Pass-Through Effects of the East African Community Common External Tariffs on Kenya's Domestic Prices
Mogendi, Justine Ongeri; Nganga, Tabitha Kiriti; … - In: Journal of Economic Integration 38 (2023) 3, pp. 466-495
This study offers an empirical microlevel analysis of the pass-through effects of the East African Community Common External Tariff on consumer prices in Kenya. Using data from the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Surveys conducted in 2005 and 2015, this research employs a fixed-effects model...
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