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In times of increasing oil prices and a weak dollar, European companies that focus their business on the US market may find themselves in a weak position. While many businesses can hedge this kind of risk by relocating production to the US, or employing financial remedies, these strategies may...
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A ceasefire has been called in the trade war between the United States and China, but there is lingering uncertainty … that will stifle aggregate spending until a "peace treaty" is signed. China is thus currently undertaking a precarious … war into simple terms, the United States is worried about the size of its bilateral trade deficit with China and is …
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Based on two detailed Balassa-Samuelson (BS) studies, Wagner and Hlouskova (2004) for eight Central Eastern European countries (CEECs) and Wagner and Doytchinov (2004) for ten Western European countries (WECs), this study assesses the differences and similarities of the BS effect between these...
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Recent debates on time-use suggest that there is an inverse relationship between time poverty and income poverty (Aguiar and Hurst, 2007), with Hammermesh and Lee (2007) suggesting much time poverty is 'yuppie kvetch' or 'complaining'. Gershuny (2005) argues that busyness is the 'badge of...
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A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...
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This study investigates the relationship between education and desired family size in Western Europe. Using rich individual-level data from West Germany we find that more-educated men and women are more likely to prefer a family of three (or more) children over a family of two children compared...
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In recent years, China has become a major power on the African continent, not only with respect to trade and investment …, but also as a donor of development aid. Although there is no accurate measure of the exact size of China's aid program …, since China rather underestimates the volume in official statistics, estimates on the basis of press releases, official …
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's ODI, b) the Chinese exports to developing countries induce China's ODI, c) China's international reserves promote its ODI …We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China … developed and developing countries, there is evidence that a) both market seeking and resources seeking motives drive China …
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culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm …
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