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Showing 1 to 20 of 324 for “"Liberalization"”.
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State based financial liberalization
… their financial systems. By tracing the liberalization experiences in both France and China through secondary sources, I show that bureaucrats within the state suggest reforms that conform to their neoliberal training when political leaders turn to them for solutions to what are perceived …
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Topics on trade liberalization and economic integration
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality in India
… data, the paper empirically examines trade liberalization’s effect on the wages of high-skilled labor relative to low skilled labor within firms. The study finds empirical evidence to support growing wage differentials within firms, which contradict the predictions of the Stolper-Samuelson …
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Trade liberalization and the structure of production in Tanzania
This thesis explores the role of trade and trade liberalization policies on Tanzanian economy with special focus on the performance of agricultural sector. In terms of methodology, we first use parametric and non-parametric tests to evaluate the impact of liberalization policies on the growth rate …
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Would Harmonizing Preferential Rules of Origin Aid Trade Liberalization?
Rules of origin are those laws and regulations that are applied to determine the country of origin of goods. Upon the importation of a product, each country applies its own rules of origin to determine the origin of the product. Such origin rules are known as “non-preferential rules of origin”. …
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Trade liberalization and firm dynamics evidence from Indian firms
This paper aims to investigate the firm level effects from the removal of trade barriers. It uses firm level data on Indian firms, and employs simple but effective specifications aimed to analyze the differential effects in sales and prices of goods previously quota bound compared to unbound …
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Adaptation to environmental shocks : internationalization responses to market liberalization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1997.
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Building markets : the liberalization of the European telecommunications industry
… differently to the challenges of market liberalization and technological change. First, within the broad European regulatory framework, the national governments adopted different regulatory regimes to oversee the development of competition and the provision of universal service in the …
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The effect of trade liberalization on taxation and government revenue
… the trade and revenue impact of trade liberalization. The purpose is to address the following issues: to examine the effect of trade liberalization on the volume of imports and exports, taxation, and its association with the enhancement of the performance of overall tax system. An …
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Three Papers on Liberalization Policies in Developing and Transition Countries
"The role of institutions in the method of privatization. The final paper of the dissertation discusses the possible reasons that governments might choose ""inefficient"" methods of privatization. An application of a political economy model suggests that both altruistic and budget-maximizing …
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Futures Contracts, Stabilization, and Financial Liberalization in Brazil: Three Essays
"A discussion of the role of financial liberalization on income distribution follows. Because of the distortions created by governmental interfering, the liberalizing of the financial sector comes to be viewed as a ""quick fix"" to the distortions created by the government-controlled system. The …
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Impacts of trade liberalization policies on rice production in Haiti
… in Haiti corresponds directly with the trade liberalization that began during the mid 1980s. Before 1986, Haiti was self-sufficient in rice production even in the midst of low yields and traditional farming practices. An influx of rice imports from the United States priced lower than domestic …
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Financial Liberalization, Competition and Sound Banking: Theoretical and Empirical Essays
Previous studies seem to agree that increased competition would cause riskier banking behavior. This dissertation shows that when competition intensifies, banks have greater incentives for screening loan applicants, and thus loan quality may improve. In addition, competition fosters banks to rely …
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Liberalizing development : effects of telecommunication liberalization in Thailand and the Philippines
… hypothesized that extensive telecommunications liberalization would not increase the penetration rate of the fixed telephone service better than other, less competition-oriented, policy alternatives. The hypothesis was validated in the case of Thailand and the Philippines. However, for the …
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Financial reforms in Taiwan : opportunities and challenges towards liberalization and internationalization
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Essays on financial liberalization, labor market pooling, and intermetropolitan wage differentials
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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The Challenges of China's Economic Reform: State Enterprise Reform and Financial Liberalization
… and come up with some strategies of financial liberalization in China. Result from this study suggests that if the necessary reforms of the financial sector and state enterprises are effectively carried out, inevitably this will lead to a significantly slower rate of growth for a period of …
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Effects of South Korean Market Liberalization on the South Korean Retail Market
South Korea is a country that is poor in natural resources and capital and remains behind many other nations in technological development; however, South Korea's unique development strategy has led its economy to high growth over the last three decades. During 1997, South Korea began to experience …
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