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Economic Policy Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative for CESEE and Austria
Bykova, Alexandra; Ghodsi, Mahdi; Grübler, Julia; … - 2018
region of Central East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) as the gateway to Western European markets. This was manifested by the … Brief analyses the most recent developments in trade and investment activities of China, Austria and the EU in CESEE, which … technology as well as finance. Overall, CESEE has a high need for infrastructure investments, particularly in the transport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100230
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Competitiveness: A comparison of China and Mexico
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2007
Latin American countries have lost competitiveness in world markets in comparison to China over the last two decades. The main purpose of this study is to examine the causes of this development. To this end an augmented Ricardian model is estimated using panel data. The explanatory variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291860
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On the Economics of Regional Powers: Comparing China, India, Brazil, and South Africa
Kappel, Robert - 2010
As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this pa-per aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of different concepts of economic power - such as those of Schumpeter, Perroux, Predöhl, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293523
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Chinese Commodity Imports in Ghana and Senegal: Demystifying Chinese Business Strength in Urban West Africa
Marfaing, Laurence; Thiel, Alena - 2011
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, independent entrepreneurial migrants from China have been increasingly flocking to Africa in search of greener pastures. This paper scrutinizes the empirical foundations of the increasingly hostile discourses of African traders regarding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293537
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Does comparative advantage make countries competitive? A comparison of China and Mexico
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2008
Latin American countries have lost competitiveness in world markets in comparison to China over the last two decades. The main purpose of this study is to examine the causes of this development. To this end an augmented Dornbusch-type Ricardian' model is estimated using panel data. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300157
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Similarity and income content at the international trade: The case of BRICS during the period 2000/09
da Silva, Orlando Monteiro; Drumond, Rafael Rodrigues; … - 2011
This study aimed to calculate the patterns of similarity and income content of Brazilian, Russian, Chinese and Indian exports by means of indexes, and compare those patterns with those of OECD countries, covering a period between 2000 and 2009. The results indicate that Brazilian, Russian,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306928
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Fishing in the same pool: Export strengths and competitiveness of China and CESEE at the EU-15 Market
Schitter, Christian; Silgoner, Maria; Steiner, Katharina; … - 2012
and Southeastern European (CESEE) countries at the EU-15 market. The paper takes a comprehensive approach in terms of … points against cut-throat competition between CESEE and China. The decomposition of export growth along the extensive versus … supplier related competitiveness effect. Both the CESEE region and China successfully intensified their trade linkages above …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345501
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China's competition and the export price strategies of developed countries
Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact of Chinese competition on developed countries export prices, with a focus on Italy. After a theoretical discussion of the channels affecting export prices in presence of competitors from low income countries, we estimate the pricing behavior of two major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345510
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Exporting firm dynamics and productivity growth: Evidence from China
Xiaobing, Huang; Xiaolian, Liu - 2015
This paper analyzes the reallocation effects generated by dynamics of exporting firms adopting DOPD productivity decomposition. The authors select the exporting firm samples from the dataset of Annual Surveys of Industrial Production for the period from 2005 to 2009. The study indicates that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345592
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Minimum wage and firm employment: Evidence from China
Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - 2014
This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect firm employment in China using a unique county level minimum wage data set matched to disaggregated firm survey data. We investigate both the effect of imposing a minimum wage, and the effect of the policies that tightened enforcement in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381181