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Japan's Foreign Direct Investment Experiences in India: Lessons Learnt from Firm Level Surveys
Choudhury, Srabani Roy - 2009
Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this reluctance of Japanese investors by studying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807649
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Trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers to Indo-Pak trade
Taneja, Nisha - 2007
This paper aims to identify the bilateral trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers between India and Pakistan. The … study shows that there is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach … categories, namely, quantitative restrictions, trade facilitation and customs procedures, technical barriers to trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807606
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The Interaction Between Technology Adoption and TradeWhen Firms are Heterogeneous
Unel, Bulent - Louisiana State University <Baton Rouge, La.> / E. J. … - 2010
technology adoption and trade in a world of two countriesfacing different technology adoption costs. It shows that a reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302524
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Trade in Environmental Goods: Empirical Exploration of Direct and Indirect Effects on Pollution by Country’s Trade Status
Zugravu-Soilita, Natalia - 2017
of trade flows in environmental goods (EG) on total CO2 and SO2 emissions. Our system-GMM estimations reveal positive … recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in …-induced effects. We show that the direct, indirect and total effects of trade in EGs depend on the country’s net trade status, the EGs …
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Regional and aggregate economic consequences of environmental policy
Schmitz, Tom; Colantone, Italo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2024
This paper shows how to combine microeconometric evidence on the effects of environmental policy with a macroeconomic model, accounting for general equilibrium spillovers that have mostly been ignored in the literature. To this end, we study the effects of a recent US air pollution policy. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577341
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Disaggregating the resource curse: Is the curse more difficult to dispel in oil states than in mineral states?
Azarchs, Timothy; Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since...
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Information Diffusion and Spillover Dynamics in Renewable Energy Markets
Cedic, Samir; Mahmoud, Alwan; Manera, Matteo; Uddin, … - 2021
The aim of this paper is to analyze the connectedness between renewable energy (RE) sectors, the oil & gas sector and other assets using time-scale spillover approach. We find that the RE bioenergy firms are the most connected to oil & gas firms and oil prices. The bond market transmits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501728
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Uncertainty and Stock Returns in Energy Markets: A Quantile Regression Approach
Cedic, Samir; Mahmoud, Alwan; Manera, Matteo; Uddin, … - 2021
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between different types of uncertainty and stock returns of the renewable energy and the oil & gas sectors. We use the quantile regression approach developed by Koenker and d’Orey (1987; 1994) to assess which uncertainties are the potential...
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The IMF in a world of private capital markets
Eichengreen, Barry; Kletzer, Kenneth; Mody, Ashoka - 2005
The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the lending. Banks have a natural advantage in monitoring and creditor coordination, while bonds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322723
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Aid and sanctions
Kletzer, Kenneth - 2005
Foreign aid donors and recipient governments often have conflicting objectives. Foreign donors may attempt to influence the policies of recipient governments by offering aid or threatening to suspend aid to sovereign states. This paper considers the credibility of such inducements and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333091