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Uncovered interest parity at distant horizons: evidence on emerging economies & nonlinearities
Mehl, Arnaud; Cappiello, Lorenzo - 2007
This paper tests for uncovered interest parity (UIP) at distant horizons for the US and its main trading partners, including both mature and emerging market economies, also exploring the existence of nonlinearities. At long and medium horizons, it finds support in favour of the standard, linear,...
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Expanding RP-US Linkages in Business Process Outsourcing
Rodolfo, Ceferino S. - 2006
The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector has experienced unprecedented global growth. This has greatly benefited the Philippines, where BPO has five main segments: call centers, medical transcription, animation, software development, and shared services. High population level, cultural...
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China, the European Union and the United States of America: Partners or competitors?
Heberer, Thomas; Taube, Markus - 2002
scored goals and competing interests of the USA and the EU vis-à-vis China are analysed. …
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A competitividade do Brasil e da China no mercado Norte-Americano: 2000-2008
Filgueiras, Marina; Kume, Honorio - 2010
This study analyses how the set of products Brazil exported to the United States was similar with that of China between 2000 and 2008 and also compares the quality and variety of their exports. Using product-level import data from United States, this study estimates the export similarity,...
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Entfremdung zwischen den USA und Europa: Geht das »amerikanische Jahrhundert« zu Ende?
Varwick, Johannes; Braml, Josef; Hardt, Jürgen; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 70 (2017) 14, pp. 3-23
Insbesondere seit der Wahl Donald Trumps zum Präsidenten der USA stellen sich viele politische Beobachter die Frage …, wie zuverlässig die USA für ihre Partner noch sind. Frühere gemeinsame Ziele, wie Freihandel, Klimaschutz und verlässliche … transatlantische Beziehungen, sind nicht mehr selbstverständlich. Die Bereitschaft der USA, internationale und multilaterale Strukturen …
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Calling on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council: How to deliver for the planet and the economy
Guinea, Oscar; Sharma, Vanika; Lamprecht, Philipp; … - 2024
This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...
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Global financial transmission of monetary policy shocks
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006
The paper shows that US monetary policy has been an important determinant of global equity markets. Analysing 50 equity markets worldwide, we find that returns fall on average around 3.8% in response to a 100 basis point tightening of US monetary policy, ranging from a zero response in some to a...
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The transmission of emerging market shocks to global equity markets
Cuadro Sáez, Lucía; Fratzscher, Marcel; Thimann, Christian - 2007
The paper analyses whether, and to what extent, emerging market economies (EMEs) have systemic importance for global financial markets, above and beyond their influence during crises episodes. Using a novel database of exogenous economic and political shocks for 14 systematically relevant EMEs,...
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Trading with Asia's Giants
Bosworth, Barry; Collins, Susan M.; Flaaen, Aaron - 2008
The United States' large and sustained trade deficit with Asia raises concerns in the United States about its competitiveness in the region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the patterns of U.S. trade relationships with China and India, and the factors that are influencing their...
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Unionisation structures, productivity, and firm performance
Braun, Sebastian - 2009
This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer welfare in a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and free entry. While centralised bargaining induces tougher selection among hetero- geneous producers and thus...
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