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Why don’t all exporters benefit from free trade agreements? : estimating utilization costs
Ulloa, Alfie; Wagner, Rodrigo - 2012
latterincrease exports and may push up factor prices for the industry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303266
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Exchange rate misalignments : historical experience of Japan, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan compared to China today
Qin, Duo; He, Xinhua; Liu, Yimeng - 2010
This is a comparative study on the historical experience of real effective exchange rate (REER) misalignment of Japanese yen, Deutsche mark, Singapore dollar and Taiwan dollar, with regard to the recent dispute over the Renminbi (RMB) valuation. Panel-based misalignment estimates of the four...
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Assessing SDGs : a new methodology to measure sustainability
Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2015
The FEEM project APPS – Assessment, Projections and Policy of Sustainable Development Goals - focuses on the quantitative assessment of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations at the end of September 2015. The project consists of two phases. The first,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391794
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Creating manufacturing jobs in India : has openness to trade really helped?
Vashisht, Pankaj - 2015
on jobs in the Indian manufacturing sector. Using the growth accounting approach, we find that the direct impact of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281276
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Environmental policy performance and its determinants : application of a three-level random intercept model
Galeotti, Marzio; Rubashkina, Yana; Salini, Silvia; … - 2014
We propose the use of a three-level random intercept model to measure the degree of environmental policy performance of different countries and to study its determinants. Inspired by the literature on multilevel latent models and Item Response Theory (IRT), this framework treats policy...
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Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law and increasing returns to scale : a comparison across developed countries
Millemaci, Emanuele; Ofria, Ferdinando - 2012
determinants of the labor productivity growth for the manufacturing sector of some developed economies (Western European Countries … returns to scale. Capital growth and labor cost growth do not appear important in explaining productivity growth. The …-Verdoorn Law ; Productivity Growth ; Manufacturing Sector …
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The younger age profile of COVID-19 deaths in developing countries
Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Fowler, Annabelle; Herrera L., Nicolás - 2020
This paper examines why a larger share of COVID-19 deaths occurs among young and middle-aged adults in developing countries than in high-income countries. Using novel data at the country, city, and patient levels, we investigate the drivers of this gap in terms of the key components of the...
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Cultural diversity and economic performance : evidence from European regions
Prarolo, Giovanni; Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco … - 2009
We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the NUTS 3 regions of 12 countries of the EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, former Western Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United...
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Food security in South Asia : issues and opportunities
Mittal, Surabhi; Sethi, Deepti - 2009
Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification...
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Household Finance and Consumption Survey : a comparison of the main results for Malta with the euro area
Attard, Silvio; Deguara, Warren; Antonaroli, Valentina - 2020
This paper compares the main findings from the third wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2016 the median Maltese household held more real and financial assets than households in the euro area....
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