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Regional economic integration and multilateralism: The case of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA and the Malaysia-New Zealand FTA

Vitalis, Vangelis - 2015

trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the … under negotiation or in force. In this regard, Asia and the Pacific has developed a rapidly evolving regional economic … Economic Partnership (or ASEAN+6 RCEP), as well as the putative Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), which …

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A review on self- or community management measures in New Zealand and Australia

Haraldsson, Gunnar; Hallgrímsson, Jónas H. - 2014

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

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Immigration Policies: Competing for Skills

Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 4, pp. 27-33

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China's exports in ICT and its impact on Asian countries

Xing, Yuqing - 2008

This paper analyses China's ICT exports growth in its two major markets Japan and the US from 1992 to 2004. It focuses on ICT products classified in SITC 75, 76 and 77. The empirical results show that Chinese exports had maintained two-digit annual growth during the period. The growth was much...

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Economic integration and the foreign exchange

Weber, Enzo - 2007

-round integration of two economies. Empirically, such a constellation is found between Australia and New Zealand, whereas diverging … trends in money and interest rates characterise the relation of Australia towards the US. …

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An outlier-robust extreme bounds analysis of the determinants of health-care expenditure growth

Hartwig, Jochen; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2012

Hartwig (2008) has presented empirical evidence that the difference between real wage growth and productivity growth at the macroeconomic level is a robust explanatory variable for deflated health-care expenditure growth in OECD countries. In this paper, we test whether this finding is robust to...

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Sectoral infrastructure investment in an unbalanced growing economy: The case of India

Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Liu, Jialu - 2012

We study the sectoral allocation of public infrastructure investments in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in India. In addition to the changing employment and output shares of these two sectors, the capital output ratio in agriculture in India has fallen, while it has risen in...

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Can Baumol's model of unbalanced growth contribute to explaining the secular rise in health care expenditure? An alternative test

Hartwig, Jochen - 2007

In a recent paper I argued that Baumol's (1967) model of unbalanced growth offers a ready explanation for the observed secular rise in health care expenditure (HCE) in rich countries (HARTWIG 2006). Baumol's model implies that HCE is driven by wage increases in excess of productivity growth. I...

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What drives health care expenditure? Baumol's model of 'unbalanced growth' revisited

Hartwig, Jochen - 2006

The share of health care expenditure in GDP rises rapidly in virtually all OECD countries, causing increasing concern among politicians and the general public. Yet, economists have to date failed to reach an agreement on what the main determinants of this development are. This paper revisits...

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