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The impact of Japan’s rivalry with China on its willingness to pursue free trade agreements
Chum, Sonya - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 18 (2014) 3, pp. 215-251
This study explores the main causes that have led Japan to conclude an FTA with ASEAN. This paper appraises Japan‐ASEAN … relations and shows that closer relations between Japan and ASEAN have provided momentum for the launch of Japan's FTAs with … ASEAN. Consequently, this paper explores the origins and progress of Japan‐ASEAN FTA, as well as the strategies and …
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Investigating whether connecting people can promote subnational economic development : evidence from China-ASEAN friendship cities
Pang, Fangying; Tang, Jingjing; Xie, Hanwen - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 4, pp. 499-530
economic development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) cities. The quasi-natural experiment of DID is based … on the establishment of China-ASEAN friendship cities. We capture the ASEAN subnational economic development by … positive impact on the subnational economic development of China-ASEAN cities. Further analysis indicates that bilateral trade …
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The relationship between the Chinese "going out" strategy and international trade
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2019
This study is the first to estimate a system of simultaneous gravity equations for Chinese exports, imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a sample of 167 countries over the period 2003–2012. The main results indicate that trade and outward FDI are complementary. In particular, the...
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Arab countries between winter and spring : where democracy shock goes next!
Abdel-Latif, Hany; Mishra, Tapas; Staneva, Anita - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/20, pp. 1-19
We examine the role of democracy shocks in the cross-country economic growth processes over a period of five decades since 1960. The recent uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world form the main context of our investigation. We study if (i) a shock to democracy in one...
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Revisiting the drivers of natural gas prices : a replication study of Brown & Yücel (The Energy Journal, 2008)
Roberts, Gavin - In: International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical … 3 (2019) 2, pp. 1-24
This paper replicates the analysis in the paper “What Drives Natural Gas Prices?" by Stephen P.A. Brown and Mine K. Yücel. The replication confirms the results of that analysis: a long-run relationship existed between natural-gas prices and crude-oil prices during the period from June 1997 to...
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International trade between Spain-Morocco-Portugal : are there any opportunities for optical products?
Barrera, Margarita - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 2 (2016)
This paper deals with the international trade interrelations between Spain and its closest neighbours to the South and West: Portugal and Morocco. It analyses the importance of optical products in the trade balance with those countries. To do so, a Social Accounting Matrix for Spain is used as a...
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Regime type, issue type and economic sanctions : the role of domestic players
Onder, Mehmet - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/2, pp. 1-18
This analysis highlights the significant role that domestic actors play in determining the outcomes of economic sanctions. It models the behavior of the main opposition party during an economic sanction episode, and introduces two commonly used variables when considering the effectiveness of...
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Sharing energy resources of Eastern Mediterranean : regional and global dynamics
Demir, Nesrin; Tekir, Osman - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 651-674
The newly discovered gas sources establish a political and economic ground for the formation of regional and global alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean. Although these new discoveries have the potential to alter the functioning of po litics and the economy, current and past controversies,...
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On the Samaritan's Dilemma, foreign aid, and freedom
Faria, João Ricardo; Arce M., Daniel G. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/53, pp. 1-17
This paper presents an extension of the two-period Samaritan’s Dilemma in order to analyze the potential for foreign aid to promote freedom. An example is the United States’ recent opening towards Cuba. It is shown that a donor nation’s dual concern for economic reforms and greater...
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Global governance : the G20 and a global Green new deal
Barbier, Edward - 2010
As the world recovers from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the international community should promote a mix of policies to sustain this global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal...
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