Many developing countries have adopted investor-friendly policies in recent years in order to attract export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have been largely ignored. This paper endogenizes FDI inflows in a structuralist general...

The extraordinary height of the U.S. current account deficits in the 90s gave rise to concern, a variety of papers and political recommendationsrevealing the very contrary opinions of economists on the subject.From this alarming evolution, the question of sustainability of such a...

The purpose of this study is to construct a macroeconometric model for theSaudi Arabian economy in order to assess the effects of external shocks through suchvariables as the price of (oil) exports, real (oil) exports, and the price of imports. Thismodel follows the methodology of the aggregate...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of Economics, 1982.

This paper examines the core aspects of China’s economic rebalancing process (from industry to services and innovations, from investment to consumption, and from exports to domestic demand), presents the main economic policy measures adopted to that end by China’s government, paying special...

En esta nota estadística se presenta la metodología aplicada en la compilación de las estadísticas complementarias de inversión exterior directa (IED) en España por última economía inversora, según el principio direccional y con datos coherentes con la balanza de pagos/posición de...

Evolving openness to trade is hard to measure, despite its relevance to models of growth, inflation and exchange rates. Our innovative technique measures trade openness encompassing both observable trade policy (tariffs and surcharges) and unobservable trade policy (quotas and other nontariff...

This paper develops a method for decomposing changes in agricultural producer prices. The method builds on a procedure used by the World Bank, with the key variables in the decomposition being trade prices, exchange rates, and agricultural trade policies. The main ways by which we expand on the...

The subject of the relationship between state budget and trade balance is important as economic subject, not only at the level of developing countries, but also at of advanced ones, too. Such importance emerged clearly when 1980s witnessed in United States of America a deficit in both state...

As regards EU accession of Hungary one of the most important questions is how the adaptation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will affect the competitiveness of the Hungarian agriculture. Competitive effects of CAP can be revealed in several ways (quantitative, comparative analysis,...