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Intra-industry trade and business cycles in ASEAN

Cortinhas, Carlos - 2007

A new resolve for both increased economic integration and monetary and exchange rate cooperation has started to emerge in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), especially since the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. According to the optimum currency area theory, the degree of trade...

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Managing diversity for a sustainable competitive advantage in the changing European business environment

Van Zyl, Tobey Zanelda - 2004

Europa se sterkpunt. Die volgehoue kompeterende voordeel van organisasies in die komplekse Europese omgewing is opgesluit in ….Europese integrasie skep geleenthede vir organisasles in die Europese Unie omwaardekettings regoor Europa te kannoniseer en om … nou op die verbetering van innovasie om groei te verseker. Organisasies in Europa behoort te investeer in die verbetering …

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Eastern Enlargement of the EU: A Comprehensive Welfare Assessment

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

This paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and single market- induced migration from new to present...

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Transfers, Agglomeration and German Unification

Ross, Matthias - 2001

This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers on agglomeration of economic activity. Two main results can be derived: First, subsidies to the activity of firms are more efficient to avoid agglomeration than subsidies to consumers (social...

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The Impact of Optimal Tariffs and Taxes on Agglomeration

Ross, Matthias - 2002

This paper extends an economic geography model by tariffs to analyze their impact on welfare and sustainability of agglomerations. Policies with and without cooperation are compared, with the goal of maximizing aggregated welfare in the former and regional welfare in the latter case. The main...

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An EU-Canada bilateral trade agreement: A DefraTAP application

Kitou, Elisavet; Philippidis, George - 2010

The first round of negotiations held in Ottawa on the 19th October, 2009, heraldedthe opening of bilateral trade talks intent on reaching a Canadian-European Union(EU27) free trade area (FTA) agreement. A second round of negotiations were staged inBrussels in January, whilst further rounds are...

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A ANALYSIS OF EVOLUTION OF BRAZIL´S TRADE RELATIONS WITH MERCOSUR AND OTHER ECONOMIC BLOCS

Braun, Mirian Beatriz Schneider; Cardoso, Rubiane Danielle - 2008

O objetivo central deste trabalho é fazer uma retrospectiva histórica do processo de formação do Mercosul, o desenvolvimento das relações comerciais, bem como o conseqüente processo de convergência e divergência neste contexto. E ainda avaliar a eficácia do processo de interação no...

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The Preference for New Preferential Trade Agreements: Does It Lead to a Good Use of Scarce Resources?

Kerr, William A. - 2011

At the end of 2010 there are more than 100 new preferential trade agreements being contemplated. At the same time there are approximately 200 existing trade agreements whose provisions leave large additional potential gains from trade on the table. Despite these potential benefits, there appears...

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Intra-industry Trade in Agricultural Products on intra-EC level: The Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Funds

Katrakilidis, Konstantinos; Mardas, Dimitri - 2010

This paper aims at specifying the main determinants of the intra-industry trade in agricultural products, associated with the funds of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)of the EC, and more precisely, with its “price support mechanism” and its “structural reform policy.” It presents...

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Liberalized emerging markets and the world economy: testing for increased integration with time-varying volatility

Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser; Morgan, Bryan - 2007

Due to increasing globalization and its potential benefits, many emerging markets have introduced capital liberalization policies to attract much needed foreign direct investment. The objective of this article is to empirically investigate whether the conducted deregulation policies resulted in...

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