Housing Demand, Savings Gluts and Current Account Dynamics
... observed in OECD economies since the mid 1990s, then the model generates dynamics for housing quantities and prices (including both prices and price-to-rent ratios), and for the current account that are similar to the data, both in size and in timing. However, housing demand drivers alone cannot exp ...
... observed in OECD economies since the mid 1990s, then the model generates dynamics for housing quantities and prices (including both prices and price-to-rent ratios), and for the current account that are similar to the data, both in size and in timing. However, housing demand drivers alone cannot exp ...
Levels and changes in the value of exports and imports divided by
... and 1990s as “globalizers” and the remaining 44 countries as “non-globalizers.” They find that the “globalizers” grew faster than the “non-globalizers.”4 Dollar and Kraay focus on the change rather than the level of the trade/GDP ratio, noting tha t the latter is likely to be more a product of a co ...
... and 1990s as “globalizers” and the remaining 44 countries as “non-globalizers.” They find that the “globalizers” grew faster than the “non-globalizers.”4 Dollar and Kraay focus on the change rather than the level of the trade/GDP ratio, noting tha t the latter is likely to be more a product of a co ...
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... red wine. Pecorino is a semi-hard, granular cheese, the color of straw, with a 36% fat content, encased in a smooth rind coated in oil. Pecorino cheese is used in many of the same menu applications as Parmesan, especially when a stronger flavor is desired (Reluctant Gourmet, 2000). The annual import ...
... red wine. Pecorino is a semi-hard, granular cheese, the color of straw, with a 36% fat content, encased in a smooth rind coated in oil. Pecorino cheese is used in many of the same menu applications as Parmesan, especially when a stronger flavor is desired (Reluctant Gourmet, 2000). The annual import ...
Integrating Developing Countries into the Global Public
... It is because of the volume and value that public sector procurement represents a vital segment of the economy (Maza and Camblor 1999). They further indicate that due to governments’ informal and legislative policies of ‘buy national’ governments have generally tended to give large contracts to nati ...
... It is because of the volume and value that public sector procurement represents a vital segment of the economy (Maza and Camblor 1999). They further indicate that due to governments’ informal and legislative policies of ‘buy national’ governments have generally tended to give large contracts to nati ...
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... The first decade of the 21st century was extraordinarily good for developing countries and their mostly poor citizens. Their economies expanded at unprecedented rates, resulting in both a large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. In fact, their growth rates ...
... The first decade of the 21st century was extraordinarily good for developing countries and their mostly poor citizens. Their economies expanded at unprecedented rates, resulting in both a large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. In fact, their growth rates ...
Tariff Escalation and the Developing Countries: How Can Market
... reported by Hoekman, Ng and Olarreaga (op. cit.), the United States, the EU, Japan and Canada have respectively 48, 290, 178, and 85 tariff peaks for food and agricultural products, with the maximum tariff rates being on butter (Canada, 340 percent), edible bovine offal (EU, 250 percent), raw cane s ...
... reported by Hoekman, Ng and Olarreaga (op. cit.), the United States, the EU, Japan and Canada have respectively 48, 290, 178, and 85 tariff peaks for food and agricultural products, with the maximum tariff rates being on butter (Canada, 340 percent), edible bovine offal (EU, 250 percent), raw cane s ...
Disclosing international trade dependencies in environmental
... product composition of domestic output will increasingly differ from the product composition of domestic consumption. The environmental impacts of trade liberalisation are subject to ongoing debate. The Ecological Footprint indicator reflects perhaps a most radical viewpoint since an ecological foo ...
... product composition of domestic output will increasingly differ from the product composition of domestic consumption. The environmental impacts of trade liberalisation are subject to ongoing debate. The Ecological Footprint indicator reflects perhaps a most radical viewpoint since an ecological foo ...
Chapter - 3 PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORMS IN DEVELOPING
... The agencies thus created will be in charge of policy implementation, while the core executives of government will formulate polices. Agencification will separate the function of policy formation and implementation The concept of agencification in developing countries is a new concept associated wit ...
... The agencies thus created will be in charge of policy implementation, while the core executives of government will formulate polices. Agencification will separate the function of policy formation and implementation The concept of agencification in developing countries is a new concept associated wit ...
Open regionalism in Asia Pacific and Latin America
... Various understandings of open regionalism by ECLAC and other sources are “systemic” in nature and go much further than traditional trade liberalization. An “open regionalism” that is appropriate for the foregoing objectives should allow an extensive liberalization of intraregional markets in terms ...
... Various understandings of open regionalism by ECLAC and other sources are “systemic” in nature and go much further than traditional trade liberalization. An “open regionalism” that is appropriate for the foregoing objectives should allow an extensive liberalization of intraregional markets in terms ...
Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization* J. Francois
... and preferential treatment) below which preference programs are irrelevant because of compliance costs (paperwork, red tape, documenting origin, etc.). This threshold is about 4 percent—implying that preferences can only matter for those products where the difference between MFN and preferential tar ...
... and preferential treatment) below which preference programs are irrelevant because of compliance costs (paperwork, red tape, documenting origin, etc.). This threshold is about 4 percent—implying that preferences can only matter for those products where the difference between MFN and preferential tar ...
IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM)
... union even on trade diversion, the added gains is the decrease of consumption alteration even while diverting. He put it further that regional free trade gains all the way through increase market size, both can accomplish productive efficiency, competitive gain and base on economies of scale. Howeve ...
... union even on trade diversion, the added gains is the decrease of consumption alteration even while diverting. He put it further that regional free trade gains all the way through increase market size, both can accomplish productive efficiency, competitive gain and base on economies of scale. Howeve ...
research paper series Research Paper 2008/36
... that VIIT, like net trade (NT), will show a positive monotonic relationship with endowment differences between countries. But existing trade models do not allow us to draw clear inferences about this, and we show that the data suggests a more complex relationship between VIIT and differences in endo ...
... that VIIT, like net trade (NT), will show a positive monotonic relationship with endowment differences between countries. But existing trade models do not allow us to draw clear inferences about this, and we show that the data suggests a more complex relationship between VIIT and differences in endo ...
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... Factor mobility does, however, change the interpretation of these relationships. If factor endowments are geographically immobile, the general equilibrium relationship between production structure and factor endowments should be interpreted in supply-side terms. Exogenous changes in factor endowment ...
... Factor mobility does, however, change the interpretation of these relationships. If factor endowments are geographically immobile, the general equilibrium relationship between production structure and factor endowments should be interpreted in supply-side terms. Exogenous changes in factor endowment ...
Jaimovich, D. (2010) A Bayesian Spatial Probit Estimation of Free Trade Agreement Contagion
... to Baier and Bergstrand (2004), because KLij is negative. When the data is cleaned, the results hold for the first three regressors, as can be seen in column 2, but GDP difij and KLij are not significant anymore. This can be explained by the change in sample. With the filled data I obtain similar r ...
... to Baier and Bergstrand (2004), because KLij is negative. When the data is cleaned, the results hold for the first three regressors, as can be seen in column 2, but GDP difij and KLij are not significant anymore. This can be explained by the change in sample. With the filled data I obtain similar r ...
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... then the management regime may collapse, leading to much more adverse environmental consequences than might have been predicted based on the pre-trade management regime. In the context of transboundary or global pollution, attention to endogenous policy responses is critical because of concerns abou ...
... then the management regime may collapse, leading to much more adverse environmental consequences than might have been predicted based on the pre-trade management regime. In the context of transboundary or global pollution, attention to endogenous policy responses is critical because of concerns abou ...
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... PTS: 1 5. What is corporate social responsibility? Why are firms trying to become socially responsible? ANS: Answers will vary. Students should explain that companies need to pay attention to ethical issues such as climate change, environmental degradation and pollution, sweatshop conditions, and br ...
... PTS: 1 5. What is corporate social responsibility? Why are firms trying to become socially responsible? ANS: Answers will vary. Students should explain that companies need to pay attention to ethical issues such as climate change, environmental degradation and pollution, sweatshop conditions, and br ...
Export-oriented Manufacturing Industry in Madagascar: Roles in
... Following other countries and expecting substantial outcomes from export-oriented manufacturing industries, policy makers in developing countries have frequently granted special treatment to those industries, usually clustered in and named as Export Processing Zones (EPZs henceforth). The first EPZ ...
... Following other countries and expecting substantial outcomes from export-oriented manufacturing industries, policy makers in developing countries have frequently granted special treatment to those industries, usually clustered in and named as Export Processing Zones (EPZs henceforth). The first EPZ ...
Openness, country size and government
... show that government consumption, as a share of GDP, is smaller in larger countries. We next confirm the observation that small countries tend to be more open to international trade. These two facts, taken together, may account for the observation that open countries have larger governments. In a re ...
... show that government consumption, as a share of GDP, is smaller in larger countries. We next confirm the observation that small countries tend to be more open to international trade. These two facts, taken together, may account for the observation that open countries have larger governments. In a re ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRNATE CONSUMPTION,
... between real exchange rate and private consumption of traded and non-traded goods. We use Ogaki and Park’s (1989) cointegration-Euler equation approach to explore long-run implications from the equilibrium relationship. Given the stationary preference shocks assumption, the testable restriction is t ...
... between real exchange rate and private consumption of traded and non-traded goods. We use Ogaki and Park’s (1989) cointegration-Euler equation approach to explore long-run implications from the equilibrium relationship. Given the stationary preference shocks assumption, the testable restriction is t ...
the diffusion of capital account liberalization
... Additionally, the discourse about the decision to undertake changes in financial openness – both by policy makers – often makes reference to the experience of other countries. Both Chile and Malaysia have been cited as influencing the decisions regarding controls of capital made by other countries. ...
... Additionally, the discourse about the decision to undertake changes in financial openness – both by policy makers – often makes reference to the experience of other countries. Both Chile and Malaysia have been cited as influencing the decisions regarding controls of capital made by other countries. ...
Environmental Goods: Where Do the Dynamic Trade Opportunities
... require costly and complex certification procedures For many PPM-based EPPs, the administrative and financial costs of PPM certification borne by producers and exporters may exceed financial gains resulting from preferential tariff treatment except for products where applied tariffs in the importing ...
... require costly and complex certification procedures For many PPM-based EPPs, the administrative and financial costs of PPM certification borne by producers and exporters may exceed financial gains resulting from preferential tariff treatment except for products where applied tariffs in the importing ...
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... This report summarizes the results of a consultancy on market trade in live wild birds and related bird movements, in line with four FAO projects on Emergency Assistance for Early Detection and Prevention of Avian Influenza in 33 countries of the Caribbean, Central America, Andean and South Cone sub ...
... This report summarizes the results of a consultancy on market trade in live wild birds and related bird movements, in line with four FAO projects on Emergency Assistance for Early Detection and Prevention of Avian Influenza in 33 countries of the Caribbean, Central America, Andean and South Cone sub ...
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... between the United States and a group of developing countries in the Caribbean Basin and perhaps a step toward the Free Trade Area of Americas. CAFTA-DR is one of the important tests of the complex political and economic integration across North and South America, given the fact that in no other geo ...
... between the United States and a group of developing countries in the Caribbean Basin and perhaps a step toward the Free Trade Area of Americas. CAFTA-DR is one of the important tests of the complex political and economic integration across North and South America, given the fact that in no other geo ...
On the Measurement of Product Variety in Trade
... Notice that the output shares in (6), for each country, are measured relative to the common set of goods I. Then the weights in (5) are the logarithmic mean of the shares s ita (I t ) and s itb (I t ) , and sum to unity over the set of goods i ∈ I t .2 The first term on the right of (4) is the price ...
... Notice that the output shares in (6), for each country, are measured relative to the common set of goods I. Then the weights in (5) are the logarithmic mean of the shares s ita (I t ) and s itb (I t ) , and sum to unity over the set of goods i ∈ I t .2 The first term on the right of (4) is the price ...
International factor movements
In international economics, international factor movements are movements of labor, capital, and other factors of production between countries. International factor movements occur in three ways: immigration/emigration, capital transfers through international borrowing and lending, and foreign direct investment. International factor movements also raise political and social issues not present in trade in goods and services. Nations frequently restrict immigration, capital flows, and foreign direct investment.