The Expected Future Exchange Rate
... Purchasing Power Parity and Baseball Bats First suppose that one U.S. Dollar (USD) is currently selling for ten Mexican Pesos (MXN) on the exchange rate market. In the United States wooden baseball bats sell for $40 while in Mexico they sell for 150 pesos. Since 1 USD = 10 MXN, then the bat costs $ ...
... Purchasing Power Parity and Baseball Bats First suppose that one U.S. Dollar (USD) is currently selling for ten Mexican Pesos (MXN) on the exchange rate market. In the United States wooden baseball bats sell for $40 while in Mexico they sell for 150 pesos. Since 1 USD = 10 MXN, then the bat costs $ ...
Environmental Taxation and Trade Liberalization in Environmental Goods and Services Alain-Désiré Nimubona
... international levels, increasing trade in EGS would furthermore translate in signi…cant technology and knowledge transfer towards importing countries. A number of regional trade agreements have also speci…cally addressed EGS liberalization. During the late 1990s, for example, the Asia-Paci…c Econom ...
... international levels, increasing trade in EGS would furthermore translate in signi…cant technology and knowledge transfer towards importing countries. A number of regional trade agreements have also speci…cally addressed EGS liberalization. During the late 1990s, for example, the Asia-Paci…c Econom ...
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... through economies of scale with a single production platform as well as a large home market. A strong argument can thus be made for a move towards regional economic integration, i.e., towards making ASEAN more of a unified market for goods and services rather than a collection of ten disparate marke ...
... through economies of scale with a single production platform as well as a large home market. A strong argument can thus be made for a move towards regional economic integration, i.e., towards making ASEAN more of a unified market for goods and services rather than a collection of ten disparate marke ...
CBI Product Fact Sheet: Fresh Exotic Tropical Fruit in the
... Organic, a growing niche market An increasing number of EU consumers prefer food products that are produced and processed by natural methods. Organic fruits and vegetables are products that can meet both needs, while at the same time they could provide higher prices to producers. To market organic p ...
... Organic, a growing niche market An increasing number of EU consumers prefer food products that are produced and processed by natural methods. Organic fruits and vegetables are products that can meet both needs, while at the same time they could provide higher prices to producers. To market organic p ...
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... adequate for satisfactory growth, growth could be impeded by lack of enough foreign exchange to buy necessary imported inputs. While some older empirical studies support the relevance of this "two-gap" approach (e.g., Weisskopf 1972), it seems of secondary importance today. I therefore omit further ...
... adequate for satisfactory growth, growth could be impeded by lack of enough foreign exchange to buy necessary imported inputs. While some older empirical studies support the relevance of this "two-gap" approach (e.g., Weisskopf 1972), it seems of secondary importance today. I therefore omit further ...
Explaining Agricultural Land Expansion and Deforestation
... expansion, but if government officials are corruptible, private economic agents will bribe officials to circumvent land control policies. It follows that improved TOT and a more corruptible government will lead to higher bribes being paid for any given level of land ...
... expansion, but if government officials are corruptible, private economic agents will bribe officials to circumvent land control policies. It follows that improved TOT and a more corruptible government will lead to higher bribes being paid for any given level of land ...
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... Introduction The U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) is a regional trade agreement designed to level the playing field between the United States and the six CAFTA-DR trade partners. It was designed to expand economic opportunities by eliminating tariffs, opening ...
... Introduction The U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) is a regional trade agreement designed to level the playing field between the United States and the six CAFTA-DR trade partners. It was designed to expand economic opportunities by eliminating tariffs, opening ...
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... Production quotas in European Union agriculture are normally transferable between firms within the frontiers of each country, whilst there are practically fixed and not transferable between the different EU Member States. Economic literature has frequently underlined the dead weight loss that an ind ...
... Production quotas in European Union agriculture are normally transferable between firms within the frontiers of each country, whilst there are practically fixed and not transferable between the different EU Member States. Economic literature has frequently underlined the dead weight loss that an ind ...
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
... The rise of markets, specialization, trade, and competition have contributed to significant increases in output. By specializing in producing those goods for which one has a comparative advantage (lowest opportunity cost) one can produce the greatest amount of goods with which to trade. Specializati ...
... The rise of markets, specialization, trade, and competition have contributed to significant increases in output. By specializing in producing those goods for which one has a comparative advantage (lowest opportunity cost) one can produce the greatest amount of goods with which to trade. Specializati ...
Trade implications of environmental taxes
... domestic country only, then there are no spillovers of pollution or resource use. On the other hand, if such transborder effects are present, then the optimal policy choice will be different. In addition, it will differ depending on whether the country follows an egoistic policy of maximizing natio ...
... domestic country only, then there are no spillovers of pollution or resource use. On the other hand, if such transborder effects are present, then the optimal policy choice will be different. In addition, it will differ depending on whether the country follows an egoistic policy of maximizing natio ...
Key Trends in International Merchandise Trade
... International trade is defined as trade exclusively in goods (merchandise). Services are not included in any of the statistics presented here. COMTRADE data, although comprehensive and comparable across countries, do not perfectly reflect national statistics (see http://comtrade.un.org/), and thus s ...
... International trade is defined as trade exclusively in goods (merchandise). Services are not included in any of the statistics presented here. COMTRADE data, although comprehensive and comparable across countries, do not perfectly reflect national statistics (see http://comtrade.un.org/), and thus s ...
Munshi(209).pdf
... In this paper, we further explore how increased trade and capital flows affect interoccupational wage inequality across countries by using OWW data for 52 developed and developing countries covering the entire OWW period, i.e., 1983-2003. Compared to previous studies, we cover a relatively recent pe ...
... In this paper, we further explore how increased trade and capital flows affect interoccupational wage inequality across countries by using OWW data for 52 developed and developing countries covering the entire OWW period, i.e., 1983-2003. Compared to previous studies, we cover a relatively recent pe ...
Cyclical fluctuations in the Mediterranean basin - e
... openness to trade and increased financial and migration flows, in fact, should make 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, ...
... openness to trade and increased financial and migration flows, in fact, should make 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, ...
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... Statistical Mandate • The Chief Statisticians of the candidate countries have asked that the OECD organise its reviews in a coordinated way within the OECD and within the countries themselves. • All candidate countries have named a central contact person to deal with the OECD on statistical reviews ...
... Statistical Mandate • The Chief Statisticians of the candidate countries have asked that the OECD organise its reviews in a coordinated way within the OECD and within the countries themselves. • All candidate countries have named a central contact person to deal with the OECD on statistical reviews ...
Modeling the future evolution of the virtual water trade network: A
... among the many contributions, Anderson and van Wincoop 2003; Head and Mayer 2015). This empirical framework relates bilateral trade flows between countries to some country-specific determinants, such as the economic mass (often the Gross Domestic Product - GDP) and pair-specific variables, such as the ...
... among the many contributions, Anderson and van Wincoop 2003; Head and Mayer 2015). This empirical framework relates bilateral trade flows between countries to some country-specific determinants, such as the economic mass (often the Gross Domestic Product - GDP) and pair-specific variables, such as the ...
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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 ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INTERMEDIATE GOODS, WEAK LINKS, AND SUPERSTARS:
... Dispersion across the 95th-5th percentiles of countries was more than a factor of 32. What explains these profound differences in incomes across countries?1 This paper returns to several old ideas in the development economics literature and proposes that linkages, complementarity, and superstar effe ...
... Dispersion across the 95th-5th percentiles of countries was more than a factor of 32. What explains these profound differences in incomes across countries?1 This paper returns to several old ideas in the development economics literature and proposes that linkages, complementarity, and superstar effe ...
business clusters and the potential of the biotechnology sector in
... emerge when economic activities in a particular location are connected with each other, both directly in the form of specific transactions and indirectly. The main idea is that the whole (the cluster) is greater than the sum of its parts, because of the advantages, which are provided by spatial prox ...
... emerge when economic activities in a particular location are connected with each other, both directly in the form of specific transactions and indirectly. The main idea is that the whole (the cluster) is greater than the sum of its parts, because of the advantages, which are provided by spatial prox ...
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... capita terms (in the following, all foreign–country variables are denoted by a superscript asterisk). Countries Home and Foreign are assumed to have the same Cobb–Douglas constant–returns–to–scale production technology in per capita terms: xt = M (kt )αK (pt )αP , ...
... capita terms (in the following, all foreign–country variables are denoted by a superscript asterisk). Countries Home and Foreign are assumed to have the same Cobb–Douglas constant–returns–to–scale production technology in per capita terms: xt = M (kt )αK (pt )αP , ...
Trade Liberalization and Employment
... sooner and more extensively trade is liberalized the greater the benefits will be. There are, however, important theoretical reservations to this position (see, in particular, Winters, 2000). Most of these arise from the fact that the above propositions rest on the assumption that there is perfect c ...
... sooner and more extensively trade is liberalized the greater the benefits will be. There are, however, important theoretical reservations to this position (see, in particular, Winters, 2000). Most of these arise from the fact that the above propositions rest on the assumption that there is perfect c ...
Disease Outbreak as a Determinant of International Trade
... weight of international trade determinants. In 1995, Trefler published The Case of the Missing Trade and Other Mysteries, which sought to tackle the theoretically sound but empirically inadequate Heckshcer-Ohlin-Vanek model.15 The essential problem with the HOV-model, Trefler argued, was that it pre ...
... weight of international trade determinants. In 1995, Trefler published The Case of the Missing Trade and Other Mysteries, which sought to tackle the theoretically sound but empirically inadequate Heckshcer-Ohlin-Vanek model.15 The essential problem with the HOV-model, Trefler argued, was that it pre ...
IOSR Journal of Economics and Finance (IOSR-JEF)
... diversified to fill up the observed gaps, composition of output will also change. This is especially so in the case of a countries like India, which assigned pivotal role to the growth of heavy and basic goods industries to replace imports of capital goods by domestic production to attain self relia ...
... diversified to fill up the observed gaps, composition of output will also change. This is especially so in the case of a countries like India, which assigned pivotal role to the growth of heavy and basic goods industries to replace imports of capital goods by domestic production to attain self relia ...
Intermediate Goods, Weak Links, and Superstars: A
... Dispersion across the 95th-5th percentiles of countries was more than a factor of 32. What explains these profound differences in incomes across countries?1 This paper returns to several old ideas in the development economics literature and proposes that linkages, complementarity, and superstar effe ...
... Dispersion across the 95th-5th percentiles of countries was more than a factor of 32. What explains these profound differences in incomes across countries?1 This paper returns to several old ideas in the development economics literature and proposes that linkages, complementarity, and superstar effe ...
quarterly journal of economics
... On the import side we find that quality-adjusted import prices tend to be lower for poor countries. It follows that countries’ quality-adjusted terms of trade are negatively related to their level of income. This surprising result is due in part to the lower unit value of imports for poor countries, ...
... On the import side we find that quality-adjusted import prices tend to be lower for poor countries. It follows that countries’ quality-adjusted terms of trade are negatively related to their level of income. This surprising result is due in part to the lower unit value of imports for poor countries, ...