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’s trade and FDI inflows. The economic distance between Vietnam and her partner countries has a significantly positive …This study examines the effect of relative economic distance (RED) between countries on bilateral foreign trade and … foreign direct investment (FDI), using Vietnam as a case study. The difference in per-capita GDP is used as proxy for the RED …
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, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the … absence of a multilateral agreement, the economy would also gain from a unilateral liberalisation of trade and investment …
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It has been more than 50 years since the establishment of the first modern special economic zones. During this time, SEZs have been credited with underpinning the dramatic export-oriented growth of China and other East Asian countries. While they remain a controversial instrument, policy makers...
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Trade finance matters for trade, and when financial markets and world trade collapsed three years ago, a shortage in … trade finance was hailed as a possible culprit. Because of the potential for global repercussions, world leaders called on … mitigate the impacts of the crisis. Then the economy bounced back, and trade picked up. But what did we learn from the crisis …
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structural change impacts on inequality for a sample of advanced, emerging, and transition economies. Trade liberalization … found that the process of structural change increases income inequality, while trade liberalization and FDI inflows help to …
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structural change impacts on inequality for a sample of advanced, emerging, and transition economies. Trade liberalization … found that the process of structural change increases income inequality, while trade liberalization and FDI inflows help to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685400
This study investigates the impact of domestic and foreign currency-valued exchange rate volatility on the export and import demand functions with reference to Pakistan’s trading partners. We use GARCH-based exchange rate volatilities and the least-squares dummy variable technique with...
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This paper is an attempt to use the Hausman-Taylor (HT) estimation to examine the determinants of trade flows of Asean … Free Trade Area (AFTA). Based on the two-way error component form of the gravity model, we employ the HT technique to … interestingly, trade is higher between countries of identical preferences than those of different ones. Secondly, the most crucial …
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both internal and international trade of cultural goods. This paper aims to empirically assess the effect of digital piracy … on bilateral trade in cultural goods. We focus on trade in music, films and media. Analysing an 11-year panel of 25 … countries, we find that piracy does affect bilateral trade, but to varying extents. …
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facilitating piracy. Piracy rates may significantly affect both internal demand and international trade of cultural goods. This … paper aims to empirically assess the effect of digital piracy on bilateral trade in cultural goods. We focus on trade in … music and media. Analysing an 11-year panel of 25 countries, we find that piracy does affect negatively bilateral trade …
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