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  • The Economic effects of trade liberalization under oligopoly

    Creator:
    Cho, Bong-Jae
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    In modern economies, national governments have a wide range of policies for restricting international trade and protecting domestic industries at their disposal. The most popular form of non-tariff trade policies is probably that of a direct quantitative restriction. This policy takes two principal forms: explicit import quotas and voluntary export...
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    Masters Thesis
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    restriction. This policy takes two principal forms: explicit import quotas and voluntary export restraints

  • An analysis of Japanese beef demand : implications of the 1988 import quota removal agreement for the United States

    Creator:
    Heldt, Gretchen L
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    In June 1988 the Japanese agreed to liberalize their beef market which had been protected by an import quota system for twenty-four years. The purpose of this thesis is to draw conclusions/implications concerning the effect of the trade agreement (1988 Import Quota Removal Agreement) upon Japanese beef imports and the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Demand: Implications of the 1988 Import Quota Removal Aqreernent for the United States Abstract

  • U.S. Import Demand for Smoked Herring

    Creator:
    Jolly, Curtis and Nguyen, Giap
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    U.S. imported 2.3 million metric tons of smoked herring in 2007 costing $707,000. Hence it is important to investigate factors influencing the importation of smoked herring into the US. We used time series data from 1976 to 2007 to estimate an import demand function: log(Mt) = a0 + a1*log(Pt) +...
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    Conference Proceeding
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    Microsoft Word - Document1 Title: U.S. Import Demand for

  • Exchange rates, exchange risk and U.S. codfish imports

    Creator:
    Zhang, Dengjun
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    The effects of exchange rates and risk on U.S. codfish imports from Canada, China, Norway and Iceland are examined in the context of the Armington framework. The exchange rate volatility is measured by the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) method. The nonstationarities of time-series data are explicitly taken into account...
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    Research Paper
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    the long-run impact of exchange rate on the import demand is generally larger than that of the

  • Textile and apparel imports

    Creator:
    Koester, Ardis W. and Oregon State University. Extension Service
    Abstract:
    Published October 1993. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
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    Technical Report
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    . The graph, "U.S. Apparel Market" (next page) indicates the trend in import shipments in recent