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Showing 1 to 20 of 7442 for “"Trade"”.
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Trade credit
… use the method to analyze a dynamic model of trade credit. This model features a principal/seller of an intermediate good who repeatedly sells on credit and lacks collateral to a cash-constrained buyer/agent who receives new history dependent private information each period and takes private …
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International free trade and biodiversity conservation : towards 'sustainable trade'
… addressing biodiversity and international trade therein. Some international and domestic legal instruments promote free trade (including free trade of biodiversity resources), while environmental legal instruments promote the conservation of biodiversity and strictly controlled …
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Free Trade is Not Free: A Case for Fair Trade
<p>To this day, mainstream economists favor free trade policies as the best way to generate economic development. They do so at the expense of their unjustified romanticization of reductionist classical trade theories. This thesis seeks to comprehend the constraints of traditional trade theories …
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International trade agreements.
In recent years, the use of the mode of regional trade liberalisation has proliferated, while the multilateral talks through the WTO have proceeded slowly, resulting in a debate on the role of bilateral and multilateral trade liberalisation. This thesis aims to provide new insights to this debate …
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Trade and the Environment: The Environment within the World Trade Organization
… of the Agreement. For the discussion on trade-related environmental disputes there are three exceptions of most importance within the GATT Agreement. Under these provisions the member states can take trade-related measures for environmentally protective reasons. These general exceptions …
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Trade facilitation in the Southern African development community: the potential contribution of the world trade organization's trade facilitation agreement
This PhD thesis studies the facilitation of trade in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It considers the fact that there have been several regional and international agreements that the SADC countries have entered into with the objective of alleviating trade facilitation obstacles …
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Australia's role in Japan's postwar trade strategy : development of Japanese trade under the Sterling Trade and Payments Agreements, 1947-1954
… role in the re-establishment of postwar Japanese trade networks from 1947 to the mid 1950s. The Sterling Trade and Payments Agreements which stipulated settlement in pounds sterling of Japan's trade with the sterling area was an important determinant of Australia-Japan trade during this period. …
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Australia's role in Japan's postwar trade strategy : development of Japanese trade under the Sterling Trade and Payments Agreements, 1947-1954
… role in the re-establishment of postwar Japanese trade networks from 1947 to the mid 1950s. The Sterling Trade and Payments Agreements which stipulated settlement in pounds sterling of Japan's trade with the sterling area was an important determinant of Australia-Japan trade during this period. …
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Paradigms in Caribbean trade diplomacy: negotiating the CARIFORUM–EC Free Trade Agreement
… (SIDS) on the trail of the emerging global trade regime because, notwithstanding the levels of economic disparity between the two sides, the Caribbean accepted the unequal nature of the partnership in a pragmatic and constructive sense. The region’s negotiators skilfully used the asymmetry …
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Trade and investment effects of free trade agreements: The case of Vietnam
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are reciprocal trade agreements between two or more partners. The relatively recent emergence of deep and comprehensive RTAs is expected to have substantial impacts on members, especially developing countries. For a particular country, the impacts of RTAs on trade …
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Trade in Shadow ASEAN-China Trade Relations amidst South China Sea Conflicts
… generate uncertainty and ultimately suppress trade. Liberal and institutionalist traditions, by contrast, suggest economic interdependence can restrain conflict (Keohane, 1989; Moravcsik, 1997). It does so by increasing the opportunity costs of escalation and by embedding state behavior within …
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Trade and Spatial Economic Interdependence: U.S. Interregional Trade and Regional Economic Structure
… changing nature and structure of interregional trade within a country. Each region’s economic structural changes and new spatial organization of production generated by the fragmented production process made possible by an open economy with significantly lower transportation costs have resulted …
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International Trade Costs and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Agricultural Trade
… describes two essays in empirical international trade, focusing on trade costs and the pattern of trade along the intensive and extensive margins. In the first essay, I study the barriers that impede international trade. In the second paper, I examine the growth of U.S. agricultural trade in …
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Agricultural Trade in Azerbaijan
Thesis topic is about agricultural trade in Azerbaijan. It consists of two research questions: how to decrease import dependency on agricultural products and how to increase export, export relations with global market players, especially the EU. Research based on statistical datas from FAO, AMIS, …
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Essays on International Trade
… studies issues at the intersection of trade policy, labor market outcomes, and firms' productivity. It consists of three chapters.</p><p>Chapter 1 investigates firms' importing and exporting decision-making and how these decisions impact firms' future productivity. First, I document …
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Essays on Trade Credit
… dissertation investigates how variation in trade credit standards play a role in firm maturation. In Chapter 1, I survey existing research in trade credit. Following this, I identify lifecycle trends in supplier trade credit policy in Chapter 2. Young suppliers assume greater risks in trade …
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Technology, trade and growth
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1992.
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Technology, trade, and prices
… the structure of international production and trade. Chapter 2 uses direct information on factor input requirements to consider which elements best explain the patterns of actual technologies. If there is factor price equalization, all countries will share the same capital-labor ratios, …
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