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BPM and SOA: Better Together
This IBM-sponsored white paper explains how the standards-based modeling, monitoring, connectivity, and process integration tools that comprise IBM's Process Integration suite are allowing companies to...
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Customs-Related Transaction Costs, Firm Size and International Trade Intensity
This paper analyses the role of firm size as a determinant of customs-related transaction costs, as well as the effect of firm size on the...
Company: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: February 2001 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
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A Global View of Economic Growth
This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: April 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare
This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: March 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Productivity Spillovers, Terms of Trade and the "Home Market Effect"
This paper analyzes the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in market size, or government spending. It introduces trade costs and...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: March 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange
How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? The paper tries to answer this question by using the relative trust European citizens have for citizens...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: December 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Does Openness to Trade Make Countries More Vulnerable to Sudden Stops, Or Less? Using Gravity to Establish Causality
Openness to trade is one factor that has been identified as determining whether a country is prone to sudden stops in capital inflow, currency crashes,...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: December 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Product Quality, Linder, and the Direction of Trade
A substantial amount of theoretical work predicts that quality plays an important role as a determinant of the global patterns of bilateral trade. This paper...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: October 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Exchange Rates and Tax-Based Export Promotion
This paper examines the impact of tax-based export promotion on exchange rates and patterns of trade. The threatened removal of Foreign Sales Corporations (FSCs) due...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: February 2001 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Does Foreign Direct Investment Crowd Out Domestic Entrepreneurship?
In analyzing firm entry and exit across Belgian manufacturing industries, this paper presents evidence that import competition and foreign direct investment discourage entry and stimulate...
Company: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Date: May 2002 |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
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Trade and the Rate of Income Convergence
To the extent that trade policy affects trade flows between countries, the ramifications can be far-reaching from an economic growth perspective. This paper examines one...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: April 2000 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Demand Side Considerations and the Trade and Wages Debate
Recent trade and wages literature focuses on whether trade or technology has been the major source of increases in wage inequality in OECD countries since...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: April 2000 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization
This paper explores the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modeled as controlled by the members...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: May 2000 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms
In recent decades, growth of overall world trade has been driven in large part by the rapid growth of trade in intermediate inputs. Much of...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: May 2003 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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On the Gains to International Trade in Risky Financial Assets
This paper develops and implements a framework for quantifying the gains to international trade in risky financial assets. The framework can handle many agents, many...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: July 2000 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Implementing the Stability and Growth Pact: Enforcement and Procedural Flexibility
The paper analyzes some key policy trade-offs involved in the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact. Greater "procedural" flexibility in the Pact's implementation may...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: March 2005 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Endowment Versus Finance: A Wooden Barrel Theory of International Trade
This paper develops a theory of international trade in which financial development and factor endowments jointly determine comparative advantage. It applies the financial contract model...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: June 2005 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade: Testable and Untestable Properties of the Melitz Model
This paper sets out a basic heterogeneous-firms trade model that is closely akin to Melitz (2003). The positive and normative properties of the model are...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Market Size, Trade, and Productivity
This paper develops a monopolistically competitive model of trade with firm heterogeneity - in terms of productivity differences - and endogenous differences in the 'toughness'...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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FDI and Trade - Two Way Linkages?
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the intertemporal linkages between FDI and disaggregated measures of international trade. It outlines a model exemplifying some...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. That Trade Goods
This paper provides an integrated view of globally engaged U.S. firms by exploring a newly developed dataset that links U.S. international trade transactions to longitudinal...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?
This paper develops four propositions that show that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S&E) workers are eroding US dominance in...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Lobbying Competition Over US Trade Policy
Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: May 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Trade Responses to Geographic Frictions: A Decomposition Using Micro-Data
A large literature has shown that geographic frictions reduce trade, but has not clarified precisely why. This paper provides insights into why such frictions matter...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: May 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth
This paper investigates the remarkable extremes of growth experiences within countries and examines the changes that occur when growth starts and stops. It finds three...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: July 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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The Free Trade Area of the Americas: The Great Challenge for Dispute Resolution
The effort to unite the economies of the Americas into a single free trade area began at the Summit of the Americas, which was held...
Company: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Date: June 2005 |
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius |
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Exchange-Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices in the Euro Area
This paper presents an empirical analysis of transmission rates from exchange rate movements to import prices, across countries and product categories, in the euro area...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: September 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI
Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white-collar services, or do these issues call...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: December 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Crisis Prevention and Management: Any New Lessons From Argentina and Turkey?
It was Sir Walter Raleigh who said that those who follow too close on the heels of history risk getting kicked in the teeth. No...
Company: Bilkent University
Date: October 2001 |
Bilkent University |
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Beyond the IMF Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb
The purpose of this paper is to examine the governmental and market mechanisms that are being developed in the world financial community as ways to...
Company: Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four
Date: March 2006 |
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four |
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Proposals for the International Conference on Financing for Development for Consideration by the G-24
This paper has attempted to draw certain recommendations from the proceedings of the G24/OPEC Fund Workshop on Financing for Development that was held in New...
Company: Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four
Date: November 2001 |
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four |
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Reforming the IMF: Back to the Drawing Board
This paper aims at contributing to this process. A main conclusion that emerges from the discussions above is that the original rationale of the Fund,...
Company: Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four
Date: August 2005 |
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four |
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Integrating Poverty Reduction in IMF-World Bank Models
This paper outlines the Fund-Bank analytical frameworks and presents a critical appraisal indicating the importance of both demand and supply constraints in the countries undertaking...
Company: Royal Institute of International Affairs
Date: September 2003 |
Royal Institute of International Affairs |
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Trade Wars on the Horizon
U.S. companies rely on markets abroad to absorb about $1 trillion a year in goods and services exported from the United States. The survival and...
Company: Penton Media
Date: March 2001 |
Penton Media |
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Economic & Business Focus: Dark Days for Trade
U.S. trade policy is now in disarray and poses a serious threat to the economic recovery. Some U.S. companies gain from the protectionism that led...
Company: Penton Media
Date: April 2004 |
Penton Media |
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Export-Import Bank: Changes Would Improve the Reliability of Reporting on Small Business Financing
The Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) provides loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to support U.S. exports. Its level of support for small business has been a long-standing...
Company: U.S. General Accounting Office
Date: March 2006 |
U.S. General Accounting Office |
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Revamping the Export-Import Bank in 2002: The Impact of This Interim Solution on the United States and Latin America
As this paper demonstrates, under the recently enacted Reauthorization Act, the Ex-Im Bank yields several benefits for the United States, including strengthening U.S. small businesses,...
Company: University of Kansas
Date: December 2002 |
University of Kansas |
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Import Demand
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of trade reforms on import demand and derives their implications on economic development in Turkey, a country that underwent...
Company: Florida International University
Date: April 2004 |
Florida International University |
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Changes in Japan's Export and Import Structures
Export trends have been an important factor during Japan's present economic adjustment period, and the structures of Japanese exports, together with the imports, have been...
Company: Bank of Japan
Date: May 2002 |
Bank of Japan |
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Export Promotion Vs. Import Substitution
Why do some countries develop more than others? Do their strategies on international trade have a role on this? In this paper two different industrialization...
Company: Temple University
Date: July 2003 |
Temple University |
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Export Supply and Import Demand Models for the Turkish Economy
The study presented in this paper estimates the export supply and import demand for the Turkish economy using both single equation and vector auto regression...
Company: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Date: June 2004 |
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
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