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IMF and World Bank were created after the Second World War as a result of monetary and fiscal Conference of the United Nations (UN) in the Bretton Wood, New Hampshire in July 1944. This conference was part of the efforts to finance the construction of Europe which was destroyed in the Second...
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This study aims to evaluate, in terms of their cardinal, ordinal, and dichotomy consistency, five alternative comercial specialization indicators: a Balassa symmetric index version; a Chi-Squared Index; and the Relative Trade Advantage Index, all these three based on revealed comparative...
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This paper estimates econometrically the impact of NAFTA on US-Mexico and US-third countries (groups of countries) trade flows. Using a traditional gravity-equation framework, we try to see to what extent the bilateral trade flows between the US and different countries differ from a gravity-type...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of economic integration among countries on firms investment decisions when such decisions are taken strategically. It is shown that, in this context, the traditional "tariff jumping" argument is not always applicable and that localisation...
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Griechenland hat lange Zeit über seine Verhältnisse gelebt und sich im Ausland verschuldet. Die hohe Staatsschuld ist nur ein Ausdruck der Probleme, die eigentliche Ursache ist die unzureichende Wirtschaftskraft. Die vorrangige politische Aufgabe besteht darin, die wirtschaftliche Substanz -...
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world. This article will analyze the extent to which China already determines macroeconomic growth in the euro area and the … euro area of 0.3 percentage points in the first year and to 0.6 percentage points in the second year. The respective values … expected that the debt crisis in the euro area will slow Chinese growth by up to one percentage point. From the Chinese …
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Brasilien, Russland, Indien, China und Südafrika - die sogenannten BRICS - weisen im internationalen Vergleich hohe gesamtwirtschaftliche Zuwachsraten auf. Auch während der jüngsten Wirtschaftskrise verzeichneten die meisten BRICS-Staaten noch ein überdurchschnittliches Wachstum. Der...
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global economic and financial crisis brought in its wake. Weak demand in the euro area was offset by robust growth in exports … dynamic emerging and developing markets, played a vital role here. In contrast, over the last decade, the euro area's crisis …
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This paper addresses the intra-regional trade of the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait. We have found that the intra-regional trade is still at a modest level, where the trade intensity index showed...
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The paper aims at analyzing the impact of the recent economic crisis on the real convergence with the Euro area for ten … Euro area average, while Poland and Slovakia improved their convergence. -- real convergence ; Euclidian distances … ; Central and Eastern Europe ; Euro area …
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