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Capital Ownership and the Political Economy of Free Trade Agreements
Pyne, Derek - In: Journal of Economic Integration 23 (2008), pp. 360-389
This article examines the political economy of free trade agreements. It assumes that, unlike labour, capital in two countries is owned and represented by the same lobby group. Using a Heckscher-Ohlin framework, factors affecting the likelihood of political parties and lobby groups supporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009415591
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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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Trade Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization in the Euro Area: The Case of Southern European Countries
Gouveia, Sofia; Correia, Leonida - In: Journal of Economic Integration 28 (2013), pp. 85-107
This paper examines synchronization in the euro area and the role of intra-EMU trade from 1981 to 2011, focusing in particular on southern European countries. The results indicate that the intensification of synchronisation that occurred in the nineties across almost all countries could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991717
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Switzerland and the European Economic and Monetary Integration Process
Vallet, Guillaume - In: Journal of Economic Integration 27 (2012), pp. 366-385
which began in 1957: even though the country has cultivated close ties and growing links with the European Union (EU) over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991718
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Hong Kong Investment in China and Income Distribution of Hong Kong
Yin Cheung, Kui; Simon Fan, Chengze - In: Journal of Economic Integration 16 (2001), pp. 526-544
Since the Chinese government launched the economic reform and “open door” policies in late 1978, investment between Hong Kong and Mainland China has increased remarkably. In fact, Hong Kong has been the Mainland’s dominant supplier of FDI. Income distribution in Hong Kong was affected when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991719
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The New Regionalism in the Americas: The Case of Mercosur
Esteradeordal, Antoni; Goto, Junichi - In: Journal of Economic Integration 16 (2001), pp. 180-202
This paper takes seriously the recent claim made by Ethier (1998) that the New Regionalism reflects the success of the multilateral trading system, not its failure. In fact, the New Regionalism represents a qualitative departure of the old regionalism in several respects, in particular, its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991720
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Firm Location, Trade and Economic Integration
Andaluz, Joaquín; Gil, Agustín - In: Journal of Economic Integration 17 (2002), pp. 671-686
The aim of this paper is to analyse how a process of economic integration between two adjacent countries with different transport costs (different levels of development) affects firms’ decisions on location and prices. Considering the situation where one firm is located in each country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991722
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Where are the Limits to the Enlargement of the European Union?
N. Jovanovi´c, Miroslav - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 467-496
hot topics in the European Union. This article considers only the economic dimension of the enlargement. Five coun - tries …) negotiate full mem - bership with the European Union. Although there are general grounds for the enlargement of the European … Union, the process will be much slower than expected by the politicians in both the European Union and the acceding coun …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991723
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The Impact of a Customs Union with the EU on Turkey’s Welfare, Employment and Income Distribution: An AGE Model with Alternative Labour Market Structures
A. De Santis, Robert - In: Journal of Economic Integration 15 (2000), pp. 195-238
The economic implications and the income distribution effects of the customs union (CU) between Turkey and the European … Union (EU) have been studied by applying a general equilibrium model to the Turkish economy under alter - native hypotheses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991724
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Agricultural Markets Integration in the European Union: Further Empirical Evidence on the Pork Sector
Isabel Sanjuån, Ana; María GiI, José - In: Journal of Economic Integration 14 (1999), pp. 203-225
Market integration among the EU þork markets is studied from both a long and short-run þersþective. Johansen's (1 988) multivariate cointegration procedure is used to identify long-run equilibrium relationshiþs among pork prices. Some hypotheses about perfect integration are formulated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991730