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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"commodity trade"”.
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What did you say? : the effect of language distance on international service trade.
Service trade is more heavily dependent on communication than commodity trade because its production and consumption occur simultaneously. "Linguistic distance," a measure of how closely the majority languages of two nations are related, is negatively correlated with the quality of communication …
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Distributional effects of the Mexican agricultural trade policies: The tomato case
… equilibrium framework under a two-country one-commodity trade model where Mexico was considered a large exporter nation and the United States the importer country. Changes in consumer and producer surpluses were used as measures of welfare indicators and for evaluating: (1) the welfare transfer …
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The impact of international migration on international trade: an empirical study of Australian migrant intake from Asian countries
… theory, it is well known that international trade of commodities is effectively trading factors of production such as labour and capital. It follows that if factors of production can be moved internationally, then the need for commodity trade is eased, and trade of commodities and movements …
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Essays in international trade
… is a collection of essays on the effect of trade costs on international trade. Chapter 1 derives and empirically examines how factor proportions determine the structure of commodity trade when international trade is costly. It combines a many-country version of the Heckscher-Ohlin model with …
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Essays on Exchange Rate Pass Through
… the model can generate a high (4-5) long-run trade elasticity without conflicting with a low (0.5-1) short-run elasticity, suggesting that the dynamics of retail networks offer a potential explanation of the trade elasticity puzzle. Chapter 2 investigates the ERPT of Chinese exporters. We …
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Three Essays on Financial and Trade Integration
… consists of three essays on financial and trade integration. Financial and trade integration are the processes though which a country's financial and commodities markets become more integrated with those in other countries. The first essay addresses the determinants of financial …
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An analysis of the profitability and sustainability of savings and credit co-operatives in Botswana
… where the economy is heavily reliant on a single commodity trade and there is potential for greater participation of the citizens in economic and social development of the country. The growing participation of co-operatives, particularly savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs), has proved to be …
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Essays on environmental regulations and international economics.
… environmental regulations and international trade and capital flows. The first essay investigates the relative importance of environmental regulations in shaping trade patterns of manufactured goods with particular reference to the OECD countries. I introduce environmental regulation and …
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Effects of Quantitative Restrictions on U.S. Textile and Apparel Imports over 1995-2010: An Analysis using Gravity Models
… Internationales (CEPII), and the United Nations Commodity Trade (U.N. Comtrade) database. In this research, three gravity equations were developed and estimated based on the existing gravity model. The first gravity equation was estimated to assess the effects of the independent variables …
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Peran pialang pada transaksi perdagangan berjangka komoditi perspektif hukum Islam: Studi di PT. Victory International Future Matos)
… dengan urbun dan hukumnya boleh. ENGLISH: Time Commodity trading is everything related to buying and selling commodities with what is based on Futures and Options on Futures Contracts. This trade is done in the BBJ (Jakarta Futures Exchange) and it has to go through a broker company registered …
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Social Ecography : International trade, network analysis, and an Emmanuelian conceptualization of ecological unequal exchange
… analysis, the theory is tested on empirical trade data for two commodity types – primary agricultural goods and fuel commodities – for the period 1995-1999. As the selected commodities can be seen as adequate representations of the third Ricardian production factor, i.e. natural resources, …