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Zollkontingente bei US-amerikanischen Käseimporten

Gast, Michael W. - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 51 (2002) 4

A tariff-rate quota (TRQ) is a two-tier tariff. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture provides for the transformation of remaining import quotas into TRQs in order to eliminate quantity restricting import barriers to trade. However, more often than not are TRQs de-facto-quotas. The...

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Global imbalances: an unconventional view

Popov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Maintaining today’s global imbalances would help to overcome the major disproportion of our times – income gap between developed and developing countries. This gap was widening for 500 years and only now, in the recent 50 years, there are some signs that this gap is starting to decrease. The...

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The Restoration of the Gold Standard after the US Civil War: A Volatility Analysis

Meulemann, Max; Uebele, Martin; Wilfling, Bernd - Center for Quantitative Economics (CQE), … - 2011

Using a Markov-switching GARCH model this paper analyzes the volatility evolution of the greenback's price in gold from … methodology indicates a switch to a regime of low volatility roughly seven months before the actual resumption. Since this … the exchange rate more than fundamentals. Our analysis also demonstrates that regime switches in the volatility of …

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A summary period measure of immigrant advancement in the U.S.

Pitkin, John; Myers, Dowell - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 12, pp. 257-292

This paper proposes a method for summarizing the pace of advancement of the foreign-born population in a given period. The method standardizes for variations in the duration of residence or age composition of immigrant groups, attainments possessed by different groups when first observed after...

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Public health, poor relief and improving urban child mortality outcomes in the decade prior to the New Deal

Fox, Jonathan F. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

This paper examines the effectiveness of the public health education and poverty relief programs prior to the New Deal. Prior researchers have speculated these programs contributed to the declining mortality rates during the 1920s, but have been unable to econometrically estimate their impact...

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Advantages And Disadvantages Of E-Learning In Comparison To Traditional Forms Of Learning

Radović-Marković, Mirjana - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 10 (2010) 2, pp. 289-298

Internet education is soon to become the dominant form of education in the world. A lot of effort is being devoted into furthering the work methods and communication among students and professors, aimed at bettering the quality of this kind of studying. Moreover, further development of virtual...

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Four Superpowers in the International Trade with High-Tech Products

Stanculescu, Ecaterina - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 5 (2013) 3

This article is an analysis of the four world superpowers (China, EU-27, USA and Japan) trade with the high …

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Four Superpowers in the International Trade with High-Tech Products

Stanculescu, Ecaterina - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 5 (2013) 3

This article is an analysis of the four world superpowers (China, EU-27, USA and Japan) trade with the high …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145147

Becoming Slimmer: Why Europe Needs to Cut Debt and Reduce Leverage

Gros, Daniel - In: CESifo Forum 14 (2013) 3, pp. 17-24

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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Shifting Structure of Global Trade Policy

Erixon, Fredrik - In: CESifo Forum 14 (2014) 4, pp. 18-22

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