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Central banks' interest rate and international trade in BRIC countries: Agriculture vs machinery industry?
Borodin, Konstantin; Strokov, Anton - 2011
machinery industry exports rather than agriculture and food products, and, on the contrary, in countries with higher interest … rates the share of agriculture and food exports increases and the share of machinery industry products declines. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306931
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Do electoral politics and partisan articulations matter for regional economic development? Evidence from Turkey's provinces
Luca, Davide - 2014
The importance of political local coalitions in shaping local governance structures conducive to economic growth has been a subject of research for numerous years, both in rich economies as well as in emerging countries. In spite of such amount of research, little attention has yet been paid to...
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The Regional Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in China
Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2015
The extent and persistence of the inequality of regional output is an important policy issue in China and its sources have been the subject of considerable empirical research. Yet we have relatively little empirical knowledge of the effects on the regional distribution of output of shocks to...
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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: Evidence from Chinese Cities
Cole, Matthew A.; Elliott, Robert J.R.; Zhang, Jing - 2009
In this paper we investigate the relationship between economic growth and industrial pollution emissions in China using data for 112 major cities between 2001 and 2004. Using disaggregated data we separate FDI inflows from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan from those of other foreign economies. We...
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Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change
Ding, Sai; Knight, John - 2009
Can others learn from China's remarkable growth rate? We explore some indirect determinants of China's growth success including the degree of openness, institutional change and sectoral change, based on a cross-province dataset. Our methodology is the informal growth regression, which permits...
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CEECs Integration into Regional Production Networks. Trade Effects of EU-Accession
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Voicu, Anca M.; Vidovic, … - 2011
production networks, imported intermediate products from the OECD are added as a determinant of the corresponding exports of …
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Wagner, Joachim; Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander - 2011
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...
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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
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, Chinese and Indian exports became more similar between 2000 and 2006, but … that similarity has declined ever since. Exports from China and India, in turn, are increasingly similar to each other and …
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CGE Analysis of Regional Policy in Northern Kyushu Area
Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2010
This study develops a policy model under the hierarchical administration system of the regional economy in Japan. In case of Japan, a hierarchy of national, prefectural, and municipal (city) administration exists, and a different regional policy in these each hierarchies can be set up....
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Future Prediction of the Prefectural Economy in Japan: Using a Stochastic Model
Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2012
This study develops an easy forecasting model using prefectural data in Japan. The Markov chain known as a stochastic model corresponds to the vector auto-regressive (VAR) model of the first order. If the transition probability matrix can be appropriately estimated, the forecasting model using...
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