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Does Financial Liberalization Spur Growth? [PDF]
We show that equity market liberalizations, on average, lead to a one percent increase in annual real economic growth over a five-year period. The effect is robust to alternative definitions of liberalization and does not reflect variation in the world ...
Campbell R. Harvey +2 more
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MODERN MECHANISMS OF FOREIGN TRADE LIBERALIZATION
In a market economy, countries seek to maximize the benefits of international exchange within their capacities. Small countries, unable to change world trade conditions for their benefit, liberalize markets in anticipation of benefiting from increased ...
Pakhlyan A. A.
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Why Reform Fails: The ‘Politics of Policies’ in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization
As the ‘Washington Consensus’ reforms lose momentum, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is calling to shift the focus from the content of policy choices to the political process of their implementation. The analysis of the paradigmatic case of
Bert Hoffmann
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ABSTRACT Since the final decade of the 20th century, Latin American countries have increasingly regarded the signing of regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a promising strategy for expanding their exports. Within this context, the main objective of this study is to assess the impact of RTAs on agri‐food exports in Latin America over the period 1990 ...
María‐Isabel Ayuda +2 more
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Vertical Price Transmission in Food Markets: New Evidence From Meta‐Analysis
ABSTRACT A growing body of empirical research has examined price dynamics along the food supply chain, yet findings remain heterogeneous and often conflicting. This study conducts a meta‐analysis of 140 studies, totaling 652 observations, to examine (1) the reported presence of asymmetric price transmission and (2) the reported direction of price ...
Sushan K C +2 more
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International Financial Liberalization and Industry Growth [PDF]
The growth effects of international financial liberalization and integration are investigated using the methodology and data developed by Rajan and Zingales (1998).
Vlachos, Jonas, Waldenström, Daniel
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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Liberalizing Agricultural Trade: Will It Ever Be a Reality?
The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture was signed in June 1994. It accomplished two things: it brought agricultural trade under the rules of WTO, and it set schedules for reducing barriers to trade under the three pillars of ...
Alex F. McCalla
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Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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Behavior of Air Passenger Demand in a Liberalized Market
This article analyzes the behavior of the demand of domestic and international air passengers in a context of liberalized air transport market and with a total deregulation of airfares (using as case study the Colombian air transport market), and where ...
Hoyos Diana Tascón +1 more
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