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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"import demand"”.
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Quarterly import demand for North American flue-cured tobacco
… information on the factors influencing importation of North American flue-cured tobacco, quarterly import demand equations were estimated for the three major importers of North American flue-cured leaf--Japan, West Germany and the United Kingdom. Factors hypothesized to affect import …
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Import demand with domestic price endogeneity : the South African case
… the imperfect substitutes model to derive an import demand function. However, here domestic prices are endogenised within a simultaneous framework in order to assess the full effect of a currency depreciation. The Johansen multivariate cointegration approach is used to estimate the import …
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Policy and Structures of Japanese Import Demand for Beef and Feedgrains
The policy and import demand structures of beef, corn, and sorghum of Japan were reviewed and quantified by a system of 12 seemingly unrelated equations consisting of 12 endogenous and 23 exogenous variables. Due to statistical modeling problems, three modified versions of the original model were …
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ESTIMATION OF UNITED STATES IMPORT DEMAND AND EXPORT SUPPLY IN A MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT MODEL, USING HUMAN CAPITAL AND R & D AS FACTORS OF PRODUCTION (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT)
<p>Traditionally the estimation of the import and export functions has been done by specifying either linear or loglinear functions of some income and relative price variables then using, usually, ordinary least squares technique. This procedure is subject to a wide range of criticisms due to its …
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The Effectiveness Of Market Development Programs For U.S. Dairy Products
… export promotion programs on increasing foreign demand and enhancing producers' revenues. The analysis is based on two econometric models. An import demand equation based on panel data is derived to measure the responsiveness of U.S. dairy import demand in various countries to dairy export …
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Three Essays on Trade Policy and Impacts of Regional Demographic Changes
The third paper attempts to calculate the Korean import demand elasticities on a disaggregate level using three approaches-the traditional approach, household maximization approach, and GDP function approach. The traditional approach has no micro-foundations and the household maximization approach …
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An econometric model of the world palm oil market and policy implications for the United States
… estimates of the structural parameters of the import demand and producer-export supply relationships for the international palm oil market. The short-run import demand price elasticities reported for the United States, the EEC and Canada, and Japan are -3.04, -1.13, and -.418, respectively. The …
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Evaluating international agricultural trade in Central America: three analyses
… competitiveness of Honduran coffee with major importing partners, along with an import demand analysis. Several important points summarize the findings. First, trends in green coffee supply and consumption continue to depress world coffee prices, making the production of coffee less attractive. …
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Potential for dairy exports to the UK post-brexit : bilateral partial equilibrium modeling in the presence of trade barriers
… the United States and the United Kingdom. Import demand systems were created to develop a model that estimates imports, exports, ending stocks, prices, consumption and production for the UK cheese and butter market. Three scenarios are created to consider the estimated effects of Brexit on …
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Export Strategies for Ivory Coast Cocoa
… of oligopolistic exporters and oligopsonistic importers, thus the market equations needed to find spatial equilibrium solutions are not only the export supply and import demand equations, but also marginal export revenue and marginal import cost functions to account for non-competitive …
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The Effectiveness of Industrial Countrys' Preferential Market Access Arrangements on Stimulating Caribbean Exports
… equation includes variables that comprises both demand and supply factors as well as dummy variables to reflect structural changes associated with preferences. The period of observation is from 1976-1986 and the estimates are based on aggregate trade and selected product groups. The second …
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Essays in International Macroeconomics
… rate pass-through into prices: assuming the import demand elasticity is independent of pass-through, larger effects of exchange rates on prices yield larger substitution of spending between domestic and foreign goods. In this paper, I show that this conventional wisdom does not hold. Using …
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A CGE Analysis of the Employment Double Dividend-Hypothesis : Substitution Patterns in Production, Foreign Trade, and Labour Market Imperfections
… of substitution in the rest of the world?s import demand function as well as price elasticities of the rest of the world?s export supply function are modified in order to test the CGE model?s sensitivity with respect to terms-of-trade effects. The result is that employment effects of an …
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Essays on International Trade
… chapters.</p><p>Chapter 1 investigates firms' importing and exporting decision-making and how these decisions impact firms' future productivity. First, I document some facts about firms' importing and exporting behavior. Firms display remarkable persistence in exporting and importing status. …
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Import and export demand functions and the Orcutt Hypothesis: evidence from South Africa
… correction (VECM) technique to estimate both the import and export demand functions and generate the generalised impulse response functions based on cointegration and error correction procedures of Johansen and Juselius (1990) to test the Orcutt hypothesis. Our results of the cointegrated models …
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Essays on financial markets, inequality and economic development
… we explore the ingredients that a model of import behavior should have in order to be consistent with the firm level evidence. We build a model where firms are heterogeneous in their factor neutral productivity, and prices, fixed costs and input qualities are common across firms. Using a …
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The impact of exchange rate fluctuations on international trade: a case study of Saudi Arabia
… disaggregate trade flows (i.e., both exports and import demand functions) were examined using annual time series data for the period 1973 through 1995. In assessing the impact of exchange rate variability on the trade flows of Saudi Arabia, a variety of exchange rate measures were used along with …
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Analysing and modelling international trade patterns of the Australian wine industry in the world wine market
… trade and to model wine export and import relationships. Indicators of Australia’s trade performance in wines in terms of trade specialisation index, export propensity, import penetration, and the ratio of exports to imports indicate that Australia has become a net-exporter and has …