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Transition in Russia: It's Happening
Berkowitz, Daniel; DeJong, David N.; Husted, Steven - 1997
Working with 110 pairs of time series of state and market commodity prices in Russia, we search for signs of transition in Russia from a command to a market economy. Beginning with inter-city comparisons of state and market prices, we find that differences in the levels of these prices have...
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TRANSMISSÃO DE PREÇOS DA SOJA ENTRE OS MERCADOS EXTERNO E INTERNO: UMA ABORDAGEM PARA A REGIÃO DE MARINGÁ.
Tonin, Julyerme Matheus; Barczsz, Silvio Silvestre - 2008
Esse artigo buscou analisar a relação de preços entre o mercado interno, especificamente a região de Maringá e o mercado externo da soja no período de julho de 1994 a dezembro de 2007. A teoria que embasa o trabalho é a Lei do Preço Único. Em se tratando de preços nos mercados interno...
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Performance Analysis of Production and Trade of Indian Silk under WTO Regime
Umesh, Kotrakerebasegowda; Akshara, Mutuguppe; Shripad, Bhat - 2009
India is the second largest producer of silk and also the largest consumer of silk in the world having a strong tradition bound domestic market. In this paper, growth functions were estimated for India’s aggregate production and trade parameters using annual data from 1984/85 to 2006/07. To...
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Grain Markets and Large Social Transfers - An Analysis of Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia
Rashid, Shahidur; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum - 2009
In 2005, Ethiopia implemented a major new social transfer program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) that involves some form of work requirement in exchange for either cash or in‐kind transfers (or a mix of the two), with the composition of the transfers administratively set to be...
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The Perils of Globalization and the World Trading System
Jackson, John H. - 2000
The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved through a number of different stages of development and survived a series of perils. Recently, however, the perils seem even greater than before. The failure of the Seattle...
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A Tale of Two Standards: An Exploration of US GAAP and IFRS
Lagasse, Allyson - 2010
The research in this paper has two objectives. Beginning with an examination of the historical development of how financial reporting standards are set in the United States and around the world, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450221
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Private and Governmental Barriers Affecting International Market Contestability: Current and Prospective Remedies
Manzoni, Massimo G. - 1997
Several interesting developments indicate that world attention is increasingly focusing on a "novel" category of trade barriers: non-tariff and non-border barriers. Following the Uruguay Round (the eighth round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, "GATT"), scholars...
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We …
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The Impact on Structural Reforms on Employment Growth and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Dimova, Ralitza - 2003
Using firm-level data from Bulgaria and Romania, this paper addresses a lacuna in the transition literature, namely … net job creation at the firm level was affected by privatization in Bulgaria, privatization in Romania did not have any …, resources moved from less productive firms to more productive firms in almost all industries, but that in Romania such a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477145
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Financial constraints, the distribution of wealth and international trade
Amissah, Emmanuel; Bougheas, Spiros; Falvey, Rodney - 2010
Extract: As the Heckscher-Ohlin-Mundell paradigm predicts, in a world where capital markets are perfect and production exhibits constant-returns to scale, while aggregate wealth endowments can be an important source of comparative advantage, their internal distribution does not matter for the...
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