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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of trade cost reduction on the Asian economy by employing a sub-national level model based on New Economic Geography. Our model comprises seven sectors, including manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors, and 1,715 regions in 18...
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Today, China is the world’s leading gold producer and its second largest consumer. Traditionally imposing strict … regulations on its gold market, China has ushered in a process of liberalisation a decade ago, encouraging individual gold trading …
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This study is motivated by the China puzzle: the very impressive post-reform growth with relatively low aggregate … constraints on the reform process have made China‟s policymakers adhere to administrative measures that they are familiar with and … government in China‟s macroeconomic performance. Our findings show that the economy indeed exhibits a stronger inertia and is …
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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 it by indirect inference; the resulting model passes the...
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Urbanization in China has in part been subject to centrally planned control and in part has resulted from the pressures …
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We examine the effects of natural disasters on income and investment in China. Using detailed macroeconomic province …
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Opinion over the global implications of China‘s rise is divided between critics, who see it as having developed at the … of trade and reductions to the cost of financing that stem from China‘s supply of light manufactures, its demand for … the US and Europe from China‘s successful export-oriented growth, though there are partially offsetting Keynesian effects …
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This article reviews key past trends in energy security from the perspective of both International Energy Agency members and the Asia Pacific over the past 30 years, and assesses future energy risks. Developments in energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas, and stationary renewable energy...
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the evolving situations in China and the United States. The most significant effects on governance are the needs to shift … China and the United States facilitate and/or hinder efforts to effectively manage ecosystem services?; and (ii) are there … adjustments that are both politically feasible and likely to make a difference in these terms? We conclude that while China and …
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The time has come (is arguably long overdue) to develop a new basis for the World Bank's work in China. For nearly two … decades, the Bank and China have been engaged in a mutual game of ‘let's pretend’, because the annual increments to China …'s foreign exchange reserves have been larger than the Bank's annual loans to China since about 1994. Now China's national income …
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