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Evaluating the Malaysian Export Processing Zones With special focus on the electronic industry
Furby, Mats - EconWPA - 2005
Export Processing Zones are geographical enclaves that have legally been excepted from the country´s normal customs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408021
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Myanmar's apparel industry in the new international environment : prospects and challenges
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147336
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Domestic and foreign sales: complements or substitutes?
Bugamelli, Matteo; Gaiotti, Eugenio; Viviano, Eliana - Banca d'Italia - 2014
How are the dynamics of foreign and domestic sales correlated at the firm level? The question is relevant in that the sign of the correlation shapes the international transmission of shocks and the effects of policy measures. From a theoretical perspective, the correlation could be either zero,...
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Causality Relationships between Total Exports with Agricultural and Manufacturing GDP in Tanzania
Shombe, Nicolaus Herman - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time … variables out of three jointly cause the third one. There is also some evidence that manufacturing does not cause export and … agriculture. Regarding cointegration, pairwise agricultural GDP and export are cointegrated, export and manufacture are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744794
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China's Local Comparative Advantage
Harrigan, James; Deng, Haiyan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
predicts that China's share of export markets should grow most rapidly where China's share is initially large. A corollary is … product, China's export unit values should be increasing in distance. We find strong support for this effect in our empirical …
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Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India
Goldberg, Pinelopi; Pavcnik, Nina; Khandelwal, Amit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
New goods play a central role in many trade and growth models. We use detailed trade and firm-level data from a large developing economy--India--to investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs, the imports of intermediate inputs and domestic firm product scope. We estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829725
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The Tip of the Iceberg: A Quantitative Framework for Estimating Trade Costs
Irarrazabal, Alfonso; Moxnes, Andreas; Opromolla, Luca David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Casual empiricism suggests that additive trade costs, such as quotas, per-unit tariffs, and, in part, transportation costs, are prevalent. In spite of this, we have no broad and systematic evidence of the magnitude of these costs. We develop a new empirical framework for estimating additive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678466
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Why World Exports are so Susceptible to the Economic Crisis --The Prevailing "Export Overshooting" Phenomenon
Liu, Bih Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper provides some evidence of the "export overshooting" phenomenon, i.e., the unusually large deviation of … exports from their long-run level. We study the export trends of a sample of 37 countries including both OECD and non …. Moreover, the extent of export overshooting was increasing in more recent crisis, which can be attributed to an increase in …
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Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments
Kee, Hiau Looi; Krishna, Kala; Cherkashin, Ivan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
reducing fixed costs at various levels can be quite effective as export promotion devices, with the exports induced per dollar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727852
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Trade and Inequality in India
Krishna, Pravin; Sethupathy, Guru - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
To study the effects of the dramatic economic reforms undertaken in India in the early 1990s on inequality, this paper examines Theil inequality as well as other inequality measures constructed using Indian household expenditure survey data from 1988-2005. Overall inequality shows some variation...
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