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Industrial energy from water-mills in the European economy, 5th to 18th Centuries: the limitations of power,

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles – including the … of textiles. On the other hand, and indeed in striking contrast, the application of water-power in the medieval … production of silks and then especially in the 18th-century production of the new cotton textiles, with those major innovations …

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The Low Countries’ export trade in textiles with the Mediterranean basin, 1200-1600: a cost-benefit analysis of comparative advantages in overland and maritime trade routes

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

still higher than the cost of transporting cheap textiles (says) overland in the late 13th century. Indeed, this steep rise … give up the export of the very cheap, light textiles and focus instead on luxury woollens that could better ‘bear the … textiles from north-west Europe were exported to Italy and the Mediterranean basin, because, inter alia, the overland distance …

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South German silver, European textiles, and Venetian trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: a non-Mercantilist approach to the balance of payments problem, i...

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

A recurrent and indeed persistent problem in European economic history – a veritable deus ex machina -- from medieval to modern times, is Europe’s supposed ‘balance of payments’ problem in trade with the ‘East’. This supposed problem has often been couched in Mercantilist overtones:...

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Trade and agricultural policies in Malawi: Not all policy reform is equally good for the poor

Douillet, Mathilde - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The reduction of the existing global distortions to agricultural incentives is sometimes stated as a priority to fight poverty worldwide. But the impacts of global trade policy and domestic development policy reforms are rarely, if ever, compared. Despite technical limitations hindering rigorous...

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Logistics costs and competitiveness: measurement and trade policy applications

Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper examines the issue of measuring logistics costs from an applied trade policy research perspective, as well as identifying logistics-intensive sectors. It focuses on currently available data at the macro- and firm-levels. Data sources considered include national accounts, national...

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The paradox of “preferences”: regional trade agreements and trade costs in services

Miroudot, Sebastien; Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between regional trade integration and trade costs in services industries. The empirical analysis relies, on the one hand, on a dataset of theory-consistent bilateral trade costs calculated for 55 countries over the period 1999-2009 and, on the other...

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Impact of Selectivity and Neutrality of trade Policy Incentives on Industrialization of Developing Countries; Implications for NAMA Negotiations

Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices of developed countries and East Asian countries with...

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United States Economic Policy Toward Asia

Noland, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The relationship between the US and Asia will be the single biggest determinant in the evolution of the global economic system. In the absence of adequate reform at the global level, the alternative could be further fragmentation into competing regional blocs. Asia holds the key, combining both...

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Trade Productivity Upgrading, Trade Fragmentation, and FDI in Manufacturing: The Asian Development Experience

Mora, Jesse; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the experience of 10 Asian countries with respect to growth, trade and FDI. It explores relationships between the nature of exports and imports and growth, as well as the relevance of FDI as a channel for these relationships. We find that FDI is often positively correlated...

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SACU tariff policies: Where should they go from here?

Edwards, Lawrence; Lawrence, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper characterizes the current SACU tariff structure, considers its rationale, proposes and evaluates some alternatives and offers some suggestions for reforming the SACU revenue sharing formula and regional trade strategy. While considerable progress was made until recently in...

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