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response strategies that are tightly related to each other and to courtesy: shows solidarity, anticipates needs, shows … attentiveness, and asks for direction. Correlations and analysis of their enactment in stressful calls led us to propose solidarity … expressionresponses that engage the caller in search of meaning to work on the task as a team. We argue that solidarity expression …
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Canadian exports of wheat and barley to the United States have increased significantly since the late 1980s. The objectives of this study are to determine the factors that affect trade flows of hard red spring wheat, durum wheat, malting barley, and feed barley from Canada to the United States...
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for consumers, barley producers, and malting firms. The globalization of markets has fundamentally changed the world in … which economic agents operate. Trade has been liberalized through multilateral world-wide agreements such as the General … prices above the prevailing world price more expensive. Open borders should also provide discipline on how industries price …
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The recently signed Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) grants the U.S. livestock industry with preferential access to South Korea's import market. This study evaluates the likely impacts of the KORUS FTA on the U.S. livestock sector.Using the Food and Agricultural Policy Research...
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Motivation of virtually all regional economic integration (REI) initiatives has been prospect of enhanced economic growth. Although REI's role in contributing to growth and development was recognised and acknowledged, its importance in Africa has never been properly outlined. Theoretical...
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This study investigated the effect the price of oil has on enabling political establishments to maintain their presence within the business environment. The study consists of three different case studies with each of the states (Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates) being chosen based...
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BIMSTEC, a regional grouping of South and Southeast Asian countries, is heading towards an FTA for greater economic integration. The present paper examines the ex ante effects of the iniative by adopting SMART and GTAP models. Based on estimated export supply elasticity, the results of SMART...
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. We focus on the European Union- the world largest preferences provider- and run two experiments of tariff cuts by the EU …
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. Based on the scenarios that the EU operates either as a monopoly or competes with the rest of the world within a duopoly …
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Quantification of welfare changes due to trade liberalisation play a crucial role for political decision making. However, meaningful comparisons of simulation results from different sources are difficult. Often significant differences in simulated gains from liberalisation do not serve to...
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