The Income–Temperature Relationship in a Cross
... There are, of course, many possible reasons why hotter countries are mostly poorer, such as climate’s effects on disease, agriculture, capital depreciation, worker productivity, or human behavior, say in the form of culture or institutions. The number of candidate pathways is large; Nordhaus (1994) ...
... There are, of course, many possible reasons why hotter countries are mostly poorer, such as climate’s effects on disease, agriculture, capital depreciation, worker productivity, or human behavior, say in the form of culture or institutions. The number of candidate pathways is large; Nordhaus (1994) ...
Financial Contagion on the International Trade Network
... the increase in the volatility of country-level performance, re‡ected in several recent episodes of economic and …nancial crises1 . One striking characteristic of many of these crises is how an initial country-speci…c event was rapidly transmitted to markets around the globe. These events sparked th ...
... the increase in the volatility of country-level performance, re‡ected in several recent episodes of economic and …nancial crises1 . One striking characteristic of many of these crises is how an initial country-speci…c event was rapidly transmitted to markets around the globe. These events sparked th ...
How Does FDI Affect Host Country Development?
... investors; each of their founders started their careers as local managers at the foreign plants, and 10 percent of their workers had prior experience as employees (Rasiah 1995). To help host country suppliers achieve economies of scale, the foreign automotive or electronics investors sometimes provi ...
... investors; each of their founders started their careers as local managers at the foreign plants, and 10 percent of their workers had prior experience as employees (Rasiah 1995). To help host country suppliers achieve economies of scale, the foreign automotive or electronics investors sometimes provi ...
Does Geographical Diversification in International Trade Reduce
... amount argued by Lucas (1987) ‒ as a result of higher macroeconomic volatility, while Ramey and Ramey (1995) among others show a strong negative correlation between business cycle volatility and long-run growth. On the other hand, lower business cycle volatility can be regarded as the result of succ ...
... amount argued by Lucas (1987) ‒ as a result of higher macroeconomic volatility, while Ramey and Ramey (1995) among others show a strong negative correlation between business cycle volatility and long-run growth. On the other hand, lower business cycle volatility can be regarded as the result of succ ...
S1200811_en.pdf
... The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has prepared this publication on the occasion of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to ECLAC headquarters, in order to provide current information on trade and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean and the People’s Republic ...
... The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has prepared this publication on the occasion of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to ECLAC headquarters, in order to provide current information on trade and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean and the People’s Republic ...
Review of Conference on What the United States
... principle are customary law, does that constrain the United States? She concludes that the legal constraint is in fact not very significant. If Congress passes a law to the contrary, subsequent federal law would prevail over the customary international law. She concludes that customary law does not ...
... principle are customary law, does that constrain the United States? She concludes that the legal constraint is in fact not very significant. If Congress passes a law to the contrary, subsequent federal law would prevail over the customary international law. She concludes that customary law does not ...
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... agricultural imports from the EU under EPAs, considering trade, welfare and revenue effects. Even assuming ‘immediate’ complete elimination of all tariffs on agriculture imports from the EU, and when excluding up to 20% of imports as sensitive products, over half of ACP countries are likely to exper ...
... agricultural imports from the EU under EPAs, considering trade, welfare and revenue effects. Even assuming ‘immediate’ complete elimination of all tariffs on agriculture imports from the EU, and when excluding up to 20% of imports as sensitive products, over half of ACP countries are likely to exper ...
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... domestic demand for these commodities by improving yields but has not developed large export surplus. It also relies on many interventionist policies for grains that have forced domestic adjustments instead of trade solutions. In this context, it is obvious that strong yield growth is expected to p ...
... domestic demand for these commodities by improving yields but has not developed large export surplus. It also relies on many interventionist policies for grains that have forced domestic adjustments instead of trade solutions. In this context, it is obvious that strong yield growth is expected to p ...
780 PESH33 Global Conceptual History.indb
... In Malaysia, as Paula Pannu shows in Chapter 6, conceptualizations of the social and economic brought the concepts of race and nation to the forefront as Malay people and intellectuals grappled with the exclusionary effects of the social and the economic. Who holds citizenship? Who is part of the so ...
... In Malaysia, as Paula Pannu shows in Chapter 6, conceptualizations of the social and economic brought the concepts of race and nation to the forefront as Malay people and intellectuals grappled with the exclusionary effects of the social and the economic. Who holds citizenship? Who is part of the so ...
International Studies Minor
... LDR 160 Leadership around the World LDR 460 Leading in Diverse Global Contexts MUS 106 Music of World Cultures PHI 320 Social & Political Philosophy PHI 309 Global Ethics POP 250 International Popular Culture PSC 312 Modern Ideologies PSC 322 International Politics in Film SOC 430 Sociology of Relig ...
... LDR 160 Leadership around the World LDR 460 Leading in Diverse Global Contexts MUS 106 Music of World Cultures PHI 320 Social & Political Philosophy PHI 309 Global Ethics POP 250 International Popular Culture PSC 312 Modern Ideologies PSC 322 International Politics in Film SOC 430 Sociology of Relig ...
Hypothesis on the Relationship between Global Marketing Strategy
... As a clear example of the co-alignment perspective on international marketing strategy, Solberg’s (1997) ‘Nine Strategic Windows’ framework defines nine international marketing strategies for internationalizing firms or business units. Each strategy matches a strategic window that is opened by a log ...
... As a clear example of the co-alignment perspective on international marketing strategy, Solberg’s (1997) ‘Nine Strategic Windows’ framework defines nine international marketing strategies for internationalizing firms or business units. Each strategy matches a strategic window that is opened by a log ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES David Hummels Peter J. Klenow
... goods, adverse terms of trade effects are no longer a necessary consequence. Rather than sliding down world demand curves for their varieties, bigger economies may export more varieties to more countries. Or they may export higher quality goods at higher rather than lower prices. If variety and qual ...
... goods, adverse terms of trade effects are no longer a necessary consequence. Rather than sliding down world demand curves for their varieties, bigger economies may export more varieties to more countries. Or they may export higher quality goods at higher rather than lower prices. If variety and qual ...
Caribbean Small States
... Growth in the Caribbean has stagnated in the last two decades, except in commodity exporters. The last rapid growth spurt in the 1980s was fueled mainly by expansion of tourism, banana production, and public investments. ...
... Growth in the Caribbean has stagnated in the last two decades, except in commodity exporters. The last rapid growth spurt in the 1980s was fueled mainly by expansion of tourism, banana production, and public investments. ...
The Rybczynski theorem
... - US imports (or, rather, US substitutes to imports) are more capital intensive K /L = 18,184 $/person-year Contradicts the theory of comparative advantage ...
... - US imports (or, rather, US substitutes to imports) are more capital intensive K /L = 18,184 $/person-year Contradicts the theory of comparative advantage ...
Trade Effects of Regional Economic Integration in Africa: The
... Empirical studies on regional economic integration process in Africa exhibit sluggish progress and there by limited level of intra trade. The existing literatures in Africa, particularly in Southern African regional integration bloc, SADC have neglected effects of regional economic integration deali ...
... Empirical studies on regional economic integration process in Africa exhibit sluggish progress and there by limited level of intra trade. The existing literatures in Africa, particularly in Southern African regional integration bloc, SADC have neglected effects of regional economic integration deali ...
PDF - La Follette School of Public Affairs
... aggregate trade, which includes all types of traded goods. However, not all goods that are internationally traded are differentiated products, and the trade of those non-differentiated products may be driven by other mechanisms than the one that is described by the monopolistic competition model. In ...
... aggregate trade, which includes all types of traded goods. However, not all goods that are internationally traded are differentiated products, and the trade of those non-differentiated products may be driven by other mechanisms than the one that is described by the monopolistic competition model. In ...
Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A
... and administrative and financial support from the Ifo Institute. Ekholm gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Swedish Research Foundation. ...
... and administrative and financial support from the Ifo Institute. Ekholm gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Swedish Research Foundation. ...
Cyclical fluctuations in the Mediterranean basin - e
... economies more sensitive to external shocks and increase the comovements of domestic and foreign variables by expanding or intensifying the channels through which shocks spill across countries. An alternative view, instead, indicates that increased economic integration could lead to more asynchronou ...
... economies more sensitive to external shocks and increase the comovements of domestic and foreign variables by expanding or intensifying the channels through which shocks spill across countries. An alternative view, instead, indicates that increased economic integration could lead to more asynchronou ...
Local, Regional or Global? Quantifying MNC
... us to control for the effect of home country orientation, which influences measured home region sales. As such, regional sales data may indeed show that very few firms are global, but it cannot tell us if this is because they are regional, or because they are local: it is a simultaneous test of home ...
... us to control for the effect of home country orientation, which influences measured home region sales. As such, regional sales data may indeed show that very few firms are global, but it cannot tell us if this is because they are regional, or because they are local: it is a simultaneous test of home ...
Are We Underestimating the Gains from Globalization for the United
... index with no adjustment for variety growth), ngc72 is the number of varieties of good g imported by country c in the year 1972, ngc 01 is this number for 2001, and g > 1 is the elasticity of substitution among varieties of a different good. As the equation makes clear, the effect of variety growth ...
... index with no adjustment for variety growth), ngc72 is the number of varieties of good g imported by country c in the year 1972, ngc 01 is this number for 2001, and g > 1 is the elasticity of substitution among varieties of a different good. As the equation makes clear, the effect of variety growth ...
Crises and the Collapse of World Trade: The Shift to Lower
... fragmentation of the production chains are good candidates to explain the contraction of the volume of trade. They cannot however, explain the huge decrease of trade prices. This is an important issue since a large part of the collapse of the value of world trade during the crisis is related to a tr ...
... fragmentation of the production chains are good candidates to explain the contraction of the volume of trade. They cannot however, explain the huge decrease of trade prices. This is an important issue since a large part of the collapse of the value of world trade during the crisis is related to a tr ...
Some Observations on the Convergence Experience of Turkey Murat ÜNGÖR
... 1950 [see Panel (d) in Figure 3]. Economic reforms, which started in 1978, have driven a rapid transition from central planning toward a market-oriented system integrating with the world economy. China grew at an annual average rate of 2.6% during 1950-1977 and then at a rate of 7.4% during 1978-201 ...
... 1950 [see Panel (d) in Figure 3]. Economic reforms, which started in 1978, have driven a rapid transition from central planning toward a market-oriented system integrating with the world economy. China grew at an annual average rate of 2.6% during 1950-1977 and then at a rate of 7.4% during 1978-201 ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SUSTAINABILITY AND ITS MEASUREMENT Geoffrey Heal Working Paper 17008
... we work with GDP rather than NDP is purely pragmatic: it is hard to measure depreciation of capital accurately. From an environmental perspective the difference between GDP and NDP matters, because much of the impact of human activity on natural capital can be thought of as depreciating this ca ...
... we work with GDP rather than NDP is purely pragmatic: it is hard to measure depreciation of capital accurately. From an environmental perspective the difference between GDP and NDP matters, because much of the impact of human activity on natural capital can be thought of as depreciating this ca ...
Is the New Wine World more efficient? Factors
... This factor is measured by the amount of deposits held in the financial system compared to the GDP, and these data were retrieved from the database of Beck et al. (2009). Human capital We assume that the quality of human capital has a positive effect on technical efficiency. Briefly, the more educat ...
... This factor is measured by the amount of deposits held in the financial system compared to the GDP, and these data were retrieved from the database of Beck et al. (2009). Human capital We assume that the quality of human capital has a positive effect on technical efficiency. Briefly, the more educat ...