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Food Price Spikes, Price Insulation and Poverty
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will J; Ivanic, Maros - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints--were meant to partially insulate domestic markets from the...
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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...
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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207521
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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791306
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Food prices and the multiplier effect of export policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115149
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When one country's land gain is another country's land loss...: The social, ecological and economic dimensions of sand extraction in the context of world-systems analysis exemplifi...
Franke, Maria - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Hochschule für … - 2014
Singapore industrialised rapidly with continuously high growth rates since its independence in 1965 and its population … during the same period of time almost tripled. With development at this scale, Singapore had to grow in number of industrial …, Cambodia and Vietnam) for its sand supply. All major sand supplying countries successively prohibited sand exports to Singapore …
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Dynamic Effects of the “New Age” Free Trade Agreement between Japan and Singapore
W. Hertel, Thomas - In: Journal of Economic Integration 16 (2001), pp. 446-484
, sanitary and phyto-sanitary regulations, and the streamlining of customs procedures. Japan and Singapore are undertaking …-commerce in Japan and Singapore. The consequences of liberalizing rules governing direct trade in services are also considered …-based standards established by Singapore. This is projected to reduce the administrative costs and lag time in Japan’s exports to, and …
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Trade Policy in Asia:Higher Education and Media Services
Findlay, Christopher (contributor);  … - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Education and media services have much in common. Both provide services that embody local cultures, in which there is extensive public sector participation and significant domestic regulation. At the same time, both are dramatically affected by the information and communications technology...
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Examination of the Singapore Shift in Japan's Foreign Direct Investment in Services in ASEAN
Hamanaka, Shintaro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
contrast, Japan’s FDI in the services sectors in ASEAN has been growing rapidly. The recent phenomenon of the Singapore Shift … establish a commercial presence in Singapore, which they expect to be the “hub†of Southeast Asia, thereby enabling them to … supply services to the entire ASEAN region. The magnitude of the Singapore Shift varies for every services sub-sector. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278055
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Examination of the Singapore Shift in Japan's Foreign Direct Investment in Services in ASEAN
Hamanaka, Shintaro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
contrast, Japan’s FDI in the services sectors in ASEAN has been growing rapidly. The recent phenomenon of the Singapore Shift … establish a commercial presence in Singapore, which they expect to be the “hub†of Southeast Asia, thereby enabling them to … supply services to the entire ASEAN region. The magnitude of the Singapore Shift varies for every services sub-sector. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278248