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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

Myanmarâ€™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 Myanmarâ€™s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....

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Entry Costs & Increasing Trade

Lincoln, William F.; McCallum, Andrew H. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

Using confidential microdata from the US Census, we find that the fraction of manufacturing plants that export rose … instead argue that changes in other factors that determine export status are sufficient to explain these trends. …

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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 …

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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains

Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...

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Exchange Rate Regimes, Foreign Exchange Volatility and Export Performance in Central and Eastern Europe: Just Another Blur Project?

Égert, Balázs; Morales-Zumaquero, Amalia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

This paper attempts to analyze the direct impact of exchange rate volatility on the export performance of ten Central … aggregate but also bilateral and sectoral export ows are studied. To this end, we rst analyze shifts in exchange rate volatility … export function. The results suggest that the size and the direction of the impact of forex volatility and of regime changes …

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Sensitivity of the Exporting Economy on the External Shocks: Evidence from Slovene Firms

Prašnikar, Janez; Bole, Velimir; Ahcan, Aleš; Koman, … - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

In this paper we investigate the export participation of Slovene firms. We first show that sunk costs are an important … factor for explaining the export behavior of Slovene firms. Next we show that when the absorption power of the exporting …

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The Shrimp Export Boom and Small-Scale Fishermen in Myanmar

Okamoto, Ikuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

This paper examines the impact of the recent shrimp export boom in Myanmar on the economic state of small …-scale fishermen. Results indicate that there has been an active increase in shrimp fishing stimulated by expanding export demand. With …

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Do electricity supply constraints matter for comparative advantage? : a neoclassical approach

Sato, Hitoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This paper examines the extent to which electricity supply constraints could affect sectoral specialization. For this purpose, an empirical trade model is estimated from 1990-2008 panel data on 15 OECD countries and 12 manufacturing sectors. We find that along with Ricardian technological...

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An export strategy and technology networks in the Republic of Korea

Mizuno, Junko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

In Korea, trade with Japan has had a deficit since the normalization of Japan-Korea diplomatic relations in 1965. Koreaâ€™s trade balance with Japan has remained in deficit since then, although Korean companies have become bigger compared to Japanese companies. My hypothesis is that the...

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Dual Track Liberalization: With and Without Losers

Che, Jiahua; Facchini, Giovanni - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

Dual track liberalization, relying upon the continued enforcement of existing contracts and the simultaneous creation of a free market sector, represents a powerful mechanism in economic reform. If not anticipated, the reform implements an outcome that is both Pareto improving and e±ciency...

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