Product Standards Coalitions In A Market Without Borders

Author : Alessandra Casella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Standardization
ISBN : UCSD:31822025575507

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Product Standards Coalitions in a Market Without Borders by Alessandra Casella Pdf

Traditional analyses of standards in international trade identify standards as government regulations and investigate the potential for distortion of trade flows. In reality, however, private industry groups exercise critical influence on the determination of technical standards. The composition of these groups is affected by technology and market conditions, and in an integrated market the alliances of private firms are likely to cross national boundaries, generating harmonization bottom. across economic activities and across countries, economic integration should bring increased harmonization across countries and finer differentiation across products. Empirical evidence from the United States and the European Union, although mostly anecdotical, supports this prediction.

Author : Spencer Henson,John Sullivan Wilson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : UCSD:31822034497610

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The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade by Spencer Henson,John Sullivan Wilson Pdf

This authoritative volume brings together for the first time the foremost research and commentary on technical barriers to trade. It explores the major theoretical issues associated with analysis of the impact of technical measures on trade in goods and the challenges associated with attempts to quantify impacts on trade flows. Previous empirical analyses of the impact of technical barriers on trade in goods in general are then presented. This is followed by in-depth coverage of the trade effects of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, an area where analysis is particularly challenging. Finally, the volume concludes by exploring institutional efforts to overcome the impact of technical barriers, including harmonization of standards and the role of the WTO. The WTO and Technical Barriers to Trade will be an invaluable source of reference for academics, students and policymakers alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113378306

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : International trade
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087293159

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Working Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helena Maria Guimaraes,Ana Faria
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849509862

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Product Market Integration by Helena Maria Guimaraes,Ana Faria Pdf

Addresses the issue of product market integration within the European Union (EU) from a multidisciplinary approach that ranges from economics to political science and sociology. This book assesses the functioning of the EU Internal Market and evaluates the need for differentiated integration in an enlarged and heterogeneous EU.

Author : National Bureau of Economic Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020780990

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NBER Reporter by National Bureau of Economic Research Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : International economic integration
ISBN : UCSD:31822035808450

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Journal of Economic Integration by Anonim Pdf

Author : William N. Goetzmann,Philippe Jorion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : International trade
ISBN : PSU:000026715513

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Re-emerging Markets by William N. Goetzmann,Philippe Jorion Pdf

Recent research shows that emerging markets are distinguished by high returns and low covariances with global market factors. These are striking results because of their immediate implications for the international investor. One key issue is whether these results may be attributed to recent emergence. Most of today's emerging markets are actually re-emerging markets, i.e. markets that attracted international attention earlier in the century, and for various political, economic and institutional reasons experienced discontinuities in data sources. To analyze the effects of conditioning on recent emergence, we simulate a simple, general model of global markets in which markets are priced according to their exposure to a world factor; returns are only observed if the price level exceeds a threshold at the end of the observation period. The simulations reveal a number of new effects. In particular, we find that the brevity of a market history is related to the bias in annual returns as well as to the world beta. These patterns are confirmed by long-term histories of global capital markets and by recent empirical" evidence on emerging and submerged markets. Even though these results can also be explained by alternative theories, the common message is that basing investment decisions on the past performance of emerging markets is likely to lead to disappointing results

Author : Joe Bandy,Jackie Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742523977

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Coalitions Across Borders by Joe Bandy,Jackie Smith Pdf

'Coalitions Across Borders' examines aspects of transnational movements that mobilise in protest against the inequities of the neo-liberal international order.

Author : David F. Bradford,Kyle D. Logue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Casualty insurance
ISBN : PSU:000026715711

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The Influence of Income Tax Rules on Insurance Reserves by David F. Bradford,Kyle D. Logue Pdf

The paper examines the effects of income tax rules on property- casualty reserving practices.

Author : Martin S. Feldstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economic history
ISBN : PSU:000026715650

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The CEA by Martin S. Feldstein Pdf

Author : Paul Söderlind,Lars E. O. Svensson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Financial instruments
ISBN : UCSD:31822023932106

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New Techniques to Extract Market Expectations from Financial Instruments by Paul Söderlind,Lars E. O. Svensson Pdf

This paper is a selective survey of new or recent methods to extract information about market expectations from asset prices for monetary policy purposes. Traditionally, interest rates and forward exchange rates have been used to extract expected means of future interest rates, exchange rates and inflation. More recently, these methods have been refined to rely on implied forward interest rates, so as to extract expected future time-paths. Very recently only the means but the whole (risk neutral) probability distribution from a set of option prices.

Author : William N. Goetzmann,Philippe Jorion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Capital market
ISBN : PSU:000033015613

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A Century of Global Stock Markets by William N. Goetzmann,Philippe Jorion Pdf

The expected return on equity capital is possibly the most important driving factor in asset allocation decisions. Yet, the long-term estimates we typically use are derived from U.S. data only. There are reasons to suspect, however, that these estimates of return on capital are subject to survivorship, as the United States is arguably the most successful capitalist system in the world; most other countries have been plagued by political upheaval, war, and financial crises. The purpose of this paper is to provide estimates of return on capital from long-term histories for world equity markets. By putting together a variety of sources, we collected a database of capital appreciation indexes for 39 markets with histories going as far back as the 1920s. Our results are striking. We find that the United States has by far the highest uninterrupted real rate of appreciation of all countries, at about 5 percent annually. For other countries, the median real appreciation rate is about 1.5 percent. The high return premium obtained for U.S. equities therefore appears to be the exception rather than the rule. Our global database also allows us to reconstruct monthly real and dollar-valued capital appreciation indices for global markets, providing further evidence of the benefits of international diversification.

Author : Allan Drazen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Debts, External
ISBN : IND:30000113766467

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Towards a Political-economic Theory of Domestic Debt by Allan Drazen Pdf

A political-economic model of the composition of government debt, that is, whether it is issued to domestic or foreign holders, is presented. The key determinant will be the political constraints on repudiation of foreign and domestic debt, which will determine the nature of the domestic political equilibrium. Economic and political factors determine the effective cost of borrowing at home or abroad, and with the ability to segment markets the government acts like a discriminating monopsonist in placing its debt. A country that expects to face a low effective foreign interest rate, reflecting the expectation that it won't be forced to repay its foreign debts in full, will be characterized by high government spending, a high government budget deficit, low domestic saving and thus a high trade balance deficit so that the domestic economy will look mismanaged in terms of a number of macroeconomic indicators. Very lenient foreign assistance programs would have the same effect.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B5426769

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Working Paper Series by Anonim Pdf