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Does a formal common-basket peg in East Asia make economic sense?

de Brouwer, Gordon - 2002

Before the financial crisis, a number of east Asian economies managed their exchange rates with the aim of stabilising the value of their currency against a basket of key major currencies, but overwhelmingly the US dollar (Frankel and Wei 1994). This suited these economies in the first half of...

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Regional income differences and market accessibility in the enlarged European Union : a simultaneous spatial CGE and estimation approach

Nils Happich - 2010

This dissertation examines the key prediction of trade models à la Dixit-Stiglitz for the EU-27. Precisely, we test if regional market accessibility determines regional income differences in the enlarged European Union. We propose an empirical strategy that overcomes weaknesses of existing...

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Linkage between World and Domestic Prices of Rice under the regime of Agricultural Trade Liberalization in Bangladesh

Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; Buysse, Jeroen; McKenzie, Andrew M. - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between the world market and domesticmarket prices of rice for Bangladesh in the … correction model. The results showed that there is a long run equilibrium relationshipbetween the world and the domestic prices … and the relationship is uni-directional, meaningthat, the domestic prices adjust to the world prices but not vice …

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Nominal and Real Convergence in Estonia: The Balassa-Samuelson (dis)connection

Égert, Balázs - 2003

of non-tradable goods in the long-run. Furthermore, the role of regulated prices in the CPI basket is also investigated …: we show that excluding regulated prices makes it possible to detect a robust relationship between productivity and the …

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Globalisasi Ekonomi Dan Produksi Crude Palm Oil (Cpo) Di Sumatera Utara

Ahmad, Aulia - 2011

This research aim to analyse the influent of the domestic price sell, real fee and interest rate to domestic offering of crude palm oil (CPO) simultanly in North Sumatra. Analyse the influent of the export price sell, domestic price and Consumer Price Index (IHK) to export offering of crude palm...

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Exchange Rate Sensitivity of Fresh Tomatoes Imports from Mexico to the United States

Jaramillo-Villanueva, Jose Luis; Sarker, Rakhal - 2009

The agri-food trade between Mexico and the United States grew substantially after the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. While some analysts argue that NAFTA has contributed the most to the dramatic expansion of this trade, others have emphasized the role played by the exchange rate in this...

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If America Had Canada's Stumpage System.

Spelter, H. - 2006

The North American lumber market is integrated and, under normal conditions, provides unhindered access to all suppliers. North American log markets, in contrast, function on different principles: in one principle, a profit allowance for the wood processor plays a role in timber pricing, whereas...

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Estimates of the economic effects of sea level rise.

Darwin, Roy F.; Tol, Richard S.J. - 2001

affect consumer prices, and (iii) international trade is disregarded. Results in this paper indicate that these limitations …

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What is the structure of the coffee market: Can the real poor benefit from the coffee trade?

Pokorna, I.; Smutka, Lubos - 2010

This article deals with the trade with coffee. The primary aim of the paper is to analyse the international coffee trade. Because coffee belongs to the cash crops we have focus on the production. We have analysed the structure of the trade concerning the green (not roasted) coffee, roasted...

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15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics, Spring 2002

Thurow, Lester - 2002

This course will focus on the environment of firms with particular emphasis on economic variables such as GNP, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and international trade. The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on...

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