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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Essays on Banking for Micro and Small Enterprises

Schrader, Jan Peter - 2009

institution ProCredit Ecuador is merged with the monthly data of seismic activity and explosions of the volcano Tungurahua in … Ecuador from 2001 to 2006. Results indicate that new clients are less likely to receive a loan after the shock, but old … der kombinierten Auswertung von seismischen Daten des Vulkans Tungurahua in Ecuador und der Kundendatenbank einer …

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Entrepreneurship and the macroeconomy.

Kartashova, Katsiaryna L. - 2009

aggregate economic activity using data from Ecuador and Chile. …

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Fundacion Maquipucuna: an entrepreneurial Ecuadorian non-profit organisation

Ratten, Vanessa - 2011

Maquipucuna is a unique non-profit organisation in the Choco-Andes region of Ecuador. An ethnographic study and review of the …

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Are credit unions in Ecuador achieving economies of scale?

Marchio, Nick A - 2009

of diffuse ownership. Using data on 36 public credit unions in Ecuador, the empirical analysis finds evidence that credit … may stem from the level of formality in Ecuador’s financial system including its level of prudential regulation …

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A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Real Exchange Rates with General Transaction Costs

GOSWAMI, GAUTAM; SHRIKHANDE, MILIND; WU, LIUREN - 2002

We study the behavior of real exchange rates in a two-country dynamic equilibrium model. In this model, consumers can only consume domestic goods but can invest costlessly in capital stocks of both countries. Nevertheless, transporting goods between the two countries is costly and, hence, the...

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Real Exchange Rates Over the Past Two Centuries: How Important is the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Effect?

Lothian, James R.; Taylor, Mark P. - 2003

Using long-span data on the dollar-sterling and dollar-franc real exchange rates over the past two centuries, we apply the findings of various strands of the recent literature in order to examine the statistical and economic significance of the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson effect (the effect of...

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Purchasing power parity in developing countries: Evidence from conventional and fractional cointegration tests

Arize, A. C.; Malindretos, John; Grivoyannis, Elias C. - 2004

This paper examines the long-run validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) for fourteen developing countries. The period examined is 1973:4 through 2002:8. The methods of Elliot, Rothemberg and Stock (1996), Kwiattkowski et al. (1992) and Geweke and Porter-Hudak (1983) are employed to detect the...

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A test of purchasing power parity: Asia Pacific and Latin America

Ho, Catherine S. F.; Ariff, Mohamed - 2009

Finding evidence of the theoretical relationship between exchange rate and inflation has been a difficult proposition in an exchange rate market, despite many studies in developed markets. Three recent papers employing a new research design, Theil’s Divisia index method, found that this...

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Impact of general purchasing power accounting on Greek accounts

Baralexis, Spyridon K. - 1989

This Study addressed the inflation accountingproblem with respect to Greece. This problem had been unaddressed despite the serious implications it may have on micro- and macro-decision making due to the high andpersistent inflation Greece has sustained from 1973 and afterwards.To accomplish the...

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