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This article by Edward N. Wolff of New York University examines trends in convergence in OECD countries toward U.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries...
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trade and investment, the supportive macro-economic environment of low inflation and improved fiscal positions, increased …
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The effects of trade liberalisation on female labour depend on a countrys socio-economic and employment sector …
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terms of trade and in the real exchange rate (the price of tradables relative to the price of nontradables). Canada has … enjoyed vast improvements in its terms of trade over recent years and there is a growing suspicion that real GDP has done an … measures of the terms of trade and real exchange rate effects confirm this view, with the trading gains adding up to 4.8 per …
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The majority of independent nations today were part of empires in 1945. Using bilateral trade data from 1948 to 2006 …, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. On average, there is little short run effect of trade with … the colonizer (metropole). However, after three decades trade declines more than 60%. We also find that trade between …
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We investigate the effects of the euro on French exporters. We build three margins corresponding to the decision of exporting, the number of products exported to each destination, and the average value of exports by product, that compose the expected value of exports of each individual firm on a...
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relationship between agricultural trade and rural poverty in post-reform China. We find that trade liberalization can affect China … its ‘growth effects’ and ‘distributional effects’. However, although China’s impressive economic growth and trade …
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This paper discusses the possible significance of the recent Empagran decision of the US Supreme court for the extraterritorial enforcement of competition law. In this decision the US Supreme rejected the claim of foreign plaintiff suing in the US another foreign firm which had participated in...
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, consumption and trade in the principal products, and is based on the most reliabme and most recent data available. They are …
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