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What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
wiley   +1 more source

Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge

open access: yesAsian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
wiley   +1 more source

Reciprocal Tariffs and Systemic Trade Losses: Evidence From Korea, Japan, and the EU

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The resurgence of U.S. protectionism, the proposal of universal reciprocal tariffs targeting major trading partners, poses systemic risks to global trade that existing bilateral analyses have not fully captured. This paper examines the economic consequences of U.S.
Noori Park, Chang Hwan Choi
wiley   +1 more source

A De Facto Asian-Currency Unit Bloc in East Asia: It Has Been There but We Did Not Look for It [PDF]

open access: yes
Pegging in a coordinated way to a regional basket currency is considered by many as optimal for east-Asian countries. By contrast, according to existing empirical studies, these countries have most often relied on non-cooperative United States dollar or ...
Girardin, Eric
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0.001% and counting: Revisiting the price rounding tax

open access: yesContemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1991 and 2008, Israel abolished the equivalents of 1¢ and 5¢ coins, respectively, effectively eliminating low‐denomination coins and introducing rounding in cash transactions. When totals were rounded up, shoppers incurred a small rounding tax.
Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, Daniel Levy
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Properties of AMU denominated Asian Bonds [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper is to investigate risk properties of AMU (Asian Monetary Unit) denominated Asian bonds by comparing them with those of local currency denominated bonds issued in East Asian countries.
Junko Shimizu, Eiji Ogawa
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Dutch disease, unemployment and structural change

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract We find that Dutch disease effects on unemployment are small even in a commodity‐rich economy like Australia. Using an estimated open‐economy model with frictional unemployment, we quantify how business‐cycle shocks and structural changes shape aggregate unemployment.
Mariano Kulish   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries have long occupied an intriguing and contested place in discussions of England's long‐run economic development. One key issue around which debate has coalesced is the living standards of the population as a whole and of different groups within it. We contribute to this debate by bringing forward new
Chris Briggs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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