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Do free trade agreements actually increase members' international trade?
Baier, Scott Leonard; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - 2005
For more than forty years, the gravity equation has been a workhorse for cross-country empirical analyses of international trade flows and, in particular, the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. However, the gravity equation is subject to the same econometric critique as...
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Trade, gravity, and sudden stops: On how commercial trade can increase the stability of capital flows
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2005
Financial stability is an important policy objective since crises are associated with big economic, social, and political costs. Promoting stability requires preventing 'sudden stops' in capital flows, which are events in which foreign financing abruptly disappears. This paper contributes to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397715
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What causes banking crises? An empirical investigation for the world economy
Le, Vo Phuong Mai; Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick; … - 2013
We add the Bernanke-Gertler-Gilchrist model to a world model consisting of the US, the Eurozone and the Rest of the … World in order to explore the causes of the banking crisis. We test the model against linear-detrended data and reestimate …
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Banking and the macroeconomy in China: A banking crisis deferred?
Le, Vo Phuong Mai; Matthews, Kent; Meenagh, David; … - 2013
The downturn in the world economy following the global banking crisis has left the Chinese economy relatively unscathed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397727
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Explaining reallocation's apparent negative contribution to growth
Nishida, Mitsukuni; Petrin, Amil; Polanec, Sašo - 2011
We explain a puzzle from two recent meta-analyses that cover 25 countries and claim to show that inputs systematically move from higher-value to lower-value activities despite strong aggregate labor productivity growth (ALP). These papers use variants of the Baily, Hulten and Campbell (1992)...
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Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience
Ranson, Matthew; Stavins, Robert N. - 2014
The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world s cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse … loss of control over domestic carbon policies, which do not appear to have deterred real-world decisions to link. These …
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Barriers to Trade in Environmental Goods and Environmental Services: How Important Are They? How Much Progress at Reducing Them?
De Melo, Jaime; Vijil, Mariana - 2014
Barriers to trade in Environmental Goods (EGs) and Environmental Services (ESs) are documented for a large sample of countries and compared with barriers to trade in other goods and other services. Some progress at reduction in barriers has occurred at the national, regional and sectoral levels...
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Ernährung und Wasser. Teil I: Perspektiven für die langfristige Entwicklung von Nahrungsmittelmärkten. Teil II: Ernährung und Wasser – ein Lebensbaustein wird immer begehrter. Mögl...
Bräuninger, Michael; Stiller, Silvia; Koller, Cornelia; … - 2005
Die Studie "Ernährung und Wasser" geht der Frage nach, wie sich Angebot und Nachfrage auf den Märkten für Nahrungsmittelrohstoffe bis zum Jahr 2030 entwickeln werden. Zudem werden die historischen Entwicklungen und die zu erwartenden (Preis-)Trends für ausgewählte Nahrungsmittel analysiert....
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Maritime Wirtschaft und Transportlogistik. Band B: Perspektiven für maritime Wirtschaft und Transportlogistik - Strategieansätze aus Unternehmens- und Investorensicht
Koller, Cornelia; Pflüger, Wolfgang; Roestel, Axel-Adrian - 2006
Wer zwischen 2001 und 2002 in Schiffe investierte - auf dem Höhepunkt der Aktienmarktkrise - der reibt sich jetzt die Hände. Enorme Gewinne sind angefallen. Seit dem Beitritt der Volksrepublik China (im Folgenden stets VRC) zum allgemeinen Freihandelsabkommen der WTO - eben in jenem Jahr 2001...
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Nachhaltigkeit
Bräuninger, Michael; Schulze, Sven; Stöver, Jana; … - 2010
Nach Definition der Brundtland-Kommission ist eine Entwicklung nachhaltig, wenn sie "den Bedürfnissen der heutigen Generation entspricht, ohne die Möglichkeiten künftiger Generationen zu gefährden, ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen und ihren Lebensstil [frei] zu wählen". Diese...
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