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during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus … budget-constraint effects as China’s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by …
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advantage in the export of products originating from of the irrigated horticulture? The products that more they exported they … in the melon export, watermelon and banana in relation to Brazil in the period in study, and that the product that more …
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Financial development has been argued as a potential source of comparative advantage and its relationships with trade has been theoretically developed. This theory posits that countries that are well financially developed should experience greater volumes of international trade. We empirically...
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This paper analyzes the variance in accounting profitability within the European food industry. Based on a large panel data set, the variance in return on assets (ROA) is decomposed into year, country, industry, and firm effects. Further on, we include all possible interactions between year,...
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The present study examines factor contentin the CEE transition country agricultural trade.However, deviating from the traditional approach, wedo not test the HOV prediction. Instead, we examine thetheoretical predictions that relate the factor content ofinternational trade to cross-country...
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This paper identifies an internal inconsistency in the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) models of international exchange. The inconsistency stems from assuming homogeneity of inputs within a population. This assumption annihilates individual comparative advantage, benefits from exchange and, consequently,...
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two-factor, two-country and multi-industry economy with productivity-heterogeneous firms suggests that countries export … countries tend to export more varieties in more (un)skilled-labor intensive industries.The third essay proposes an alternative …. The amended prediction is tested with disaggregated data on manufacturing trade and production, using various estimation …
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which takes into accountchanges in export and domestic demand and market clearing price. It optimizes the supply of … already have significant income effects to agriculturalproducers. We simulated effects of pig meat export bans of different … degrees due to livestockepidemics. Full closure of export markets for six months cost pig sector €21 million. …
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animals from the market, and halts the export of livestock products from the infected country. The magnitude of these effects … implications of alternative FMD and export scenarios in the Finnish pig sector. It takes into account dynamics and adjustment of … pig producers can increase considerably when the risk of prolonged export ban increases. Production adjustments also …
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