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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Trade deficit"”.
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Trade patterns and determinants in selected trade deficit categories in Australia: 1990-2006
The Australian Trade Deficit (TD) has been increasing in the past 50 years, and this deficit has become more significant in the last few decades. This rising TD level in Australia has brought the national debt level to a new height, making this country one of the world‟s highest debt-ridden …
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Exchange rate pessimism in Tanzanian macroeconomic policy
… experiencing, attention is focused on visible trade deficit because capital markets are almost non-existent, capital mobility is strictly controlled and service trade is underdeveloped. Economic theory recommends devaluation if quicker response is needed and the destabilizing effects of …
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A computable general equilibrium analysis of regional impacts of macro-shocks in the 1980S
… in federal fiscal policies and the nation's trade deficit. An attempt is made to fill a gap in the literature of regional economics by providing an explanation of how economic changes at national and international levels are transmitted to regions, and by providing general-equilibrium …
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Economic effect of implementing electric cars
… today would contribute to a national trade deficit. The price difference for EVs would cause government tax income to decrease significantly over a period of an EVs suggested lifetime. Required infrastructure to accommodate the increased energy demands following EV implementation would …
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The outcomes of international trade conflicts: the U.S. and Japan, 1968-1983
… increasingly found themselves in international trade disputes. Yet little research has attempted to analyze this important form of international conflict. The analysis of the U.S.-Japanese trade conflict shows that 11 significant commercial disputes occurred between 1968 and 1983, covering five …
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A paradiplomacia comercial no Estado da Paraíba: 1999 a 2003
… of the state of Paraíba and its foreign trade behaviour, in the period from 1999 to 2013, concluding about possible impacts of international actions on its foreign trade. The main concept utilised has its bases in the concepts of commercial paradiplomacy of Maia (2012) and paradiplomacy …
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Autos for Africa? : possibilities and pitfalls for an automotive industry in Africa
… world. This has led to an enormous automotive trade deficit in the region where, apart from South Africa, there is almost no domestic production. The dissertation establishes the trends and scale of automotive demand in SSA and then considers the question of whether and how the region can begin …
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An analysis of the potential socio-economic impacts of shale gas development in South Africa
… poverty and inequality. Potential impacts on trade are negative as the trade deficit increases. In terms of environmental impacts, the uptake of gas would decrease CO2 emissions. All results are compared to the baseline scenario. Based on these results, it is recommended that the decision on …
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Price Level of Non-tradable Goods in Iceland: Explanations by Economic Fundamentals
… ‘Dutch disease’. Meanwhile increasing trade deficit helped to magnify the effect of the ‘Dutch disease’.
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Effect Of Cetane Number And Volatility On Autoignition And Combustion Of Alternative Fuels And Their Surrogates
… of crude oil reserves, increasing gas price, trade deficit, and homeland security enhances the interests in alternative fuels. </p> <p>Unlike conventional diesel fuel, alternative fuels have wide range of properties, such as volatility, cetane number, density, viscosity and lower heating …
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Investigating the Role of International Financial Reporting Standards as a Barrier to Trade in Accounting Services
… the impact of IFRS adoption on bilateral trade of accounting services. Services are the largest portion of the United States economy, and the US regularly reports an overall trade surplus for services. Conversely, the US accounting services sector consistently reports a trade deficit. US …
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The effect of trade liberalization on taxation and government revenue
This thesis investigates 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 …
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Effects of South Korean Market Liberalization on the South Korean Retail Market
… goods and domestic products; (3) South Korea's trade deficit; (4) perceived over-consumption of luxury items by South Korean consumers; and (5) the chaebol, or South Korean large conglomerates. The economic factors that have led to the current difficulties facing the South Korean retailing …
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The role of China's 'one belt one road initiative' project in interdependence relations between China and Africa: the case of Ethiopia and South Africa from 1994 to 2019
… infrastructure projects, loans, aid, and trade in Africa, especially in Ethiopia and South Africa, remain the key pillars of the asymmetrical nature of interdependence relations. It shows the sensitivity and vulnerability of these respective states and their economies and the trend toward …
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Essays in International Trade and Macroeconomics
… thesis consists of three essays on international trade, macroeconomics and finance. In the first essay (joint with Marc de la Barrera and Masao Fukui), we study how the interaction between China's productivity growth and currency peg to the US dollar affected the labor market and trade imbalance …
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Essays on Production Structure and Economic Integration
… makeup of economies and the process of trade- and financial liberalization. In the first chapter I examine the role of trade and external deficits in explaining the patterns of structural change in twenty developed and developing economies between 1965 and 2000. First, for each country, …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… to the US dollar affected the labor market and trade imbalance in the United States. Empirically, we document that in response to similar exposure to Chinese exports, countries pegging to the US dollar experienced larger unemployment and trade deficits compared to floating countries. …
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Aid-Foreign Direct Investment Linkages: A Case Study of Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda.
… by the decline in economic growth and trade of the region's economies over the last three decades. For instance, only 2 of 39 SSA economies (UNCTAD, 2000) were better off in the 1990s on growth and trade than they were in the 1970s. Again, according to UNCTAD (2000) the 1980s was …
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BANCA CENTRALE, FORMA DI GOVERNO ITALIANA E INTEGRAZIONE EUROPEA
… order to maintain the equilibrium of balance of trade of a country without raw materials and en-ergy sources. In other words, the monetary system built after the war allowed the development of a de-featist party system without this calling into question its constitutional assumptions. The third …