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international competitiveness of five Thai economic products exporting to the People’s Republic of China during the first half of … competitiveness. Future studies are encouraged to study in the longer-term period with numerous indices. Practical implications The … research also provides policy implications and measures to develop each sector to enhance competitiveness. Originality …
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subsistence such as Sudan is to develop their financial institutions in order to increase their competitiveness in the exchange … under conditions of subsistence, general equilibrium models of devaluation are determinant only when supply functions are …
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Analyses how the status of balance of payments follows se\ill\ fulfilling expectations of currency devaluation. It is … found that before a currency devaluation, whether the economy w\ill\ experience a balance‐of‐payments surplus or deficit …
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Attempts to shed new light on the relation between the terms of trade and effective exchange rate using cointegration analysis and data from 25 countries. Findings could be summarized by saying that there is o long‐run relation between exchange rate and the terms of trade.
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Some structuralists argue that devaluations are contractionary, and that exports and imports are inelastic to exchange rate movements. A simultaneous model of exports, imports, capital flows and output is used to show that in Peru only the first proposition is correct. Consequently, external...
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devaluation can stimulate production and employment, and can improve efficiency and social welfare.  …
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Abstract Recently, researchers have started to re-examine the so-called Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem on optimal commodity taxation. The essence of such research is to examine whether or not it is optimal to distort markets other than the labor market for achieving the second-best resource...
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Purpose – Considerable research has been conducted on the comparative advantage of Chinese manufactured exports before 2000, but too little attention has been focused on the twenty‐first century. With this rapid growth of China's export volume since 2001, what is the change in comparative...
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Purpose – Bilateral trade between Egypt and China has expanded substantially in recent years. Few studies however have focused on the understanding of this trade relationship. The purpose of this paper is to fill a void in the literature by examining and understanding the two countries' trade...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically whether job assignment, based on comparative advantage and learning about workers’ abilities, can explain wage and promotion dynamics within firms. Design/methodology/approach – The Gibbons and Waldman model is estimated in...
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