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- Performance, Firm Size and the Heterogeneity of Competitive Strategy for Long-lived Small Firms: A Simultaneous Equations Analysis
- This paper examines the relationship between firm size, competitive strategy and performance, for the long-lived small firm. It uses structural modeling to test the hypothesis that small firms need to remain small if they are to be long-lived. In a three equation simultaneous model, performance, size and the dimensions of...
- White papers 2003-08-20
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- Reciprocity In Free Trade Agreements
- This article uses detailed trade, tariff, and income data for countries involved in 91 trade agreements negotiated since 1980 to test for reciprocity in free trade agreements. The results offer strong evidence of reciprocity in North-North and South-South free trade agreements, but there is little empirical support for reciprocity in...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Fair Trade
- The world is full of diversity. There are numerous countries, all having different culture, different standards of living, and different trade policies. However, it has been observed that the differences in trade policies have resulted in huge economic imbalances in the economy. Hence, it is important for all the nations...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- How to Use Trade Shows to Sell
- Last November, I asked "Are Trade Show Leads Worth It?"Â Almost two-thirds of you responded to the poll said "NO" and only 16 percent responded "YES."Â And I suspect that some of those "YES" votes came from people in the trade show industry. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- E*Trade Asked to Raise New Capital Without Access to TARP
- E*Trade is the latest company to have been dragged into the stress tests run by U.S. federal bank regulators and has been asked to raise new capital as a result. But unlike the "too-big-to-fail" 19 major financial institutions also undergoing stress tests, the online broker -- which doubles as a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Trade Integration and Risk Sharing
- What are the effects of increased trade in goods and services on the trade balance? We study the effects of reducing transport costs in a Ricardian model with complete asset markets. Trade integration has three effects on the structure of the economy: a reduction in the home bias in consumption,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Supplier Relationships And Small Business Use Of Trade Credit
- This paper sheds some light on the empirical importance of supplier relationships, including ethnic ties, for the use of trade credit by minority-owned small businesses. Results based on the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finance NSSBF indicate that ethnic differences in the use of trade credit are present after...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- Import-Reducing Effect of Trade Barriers: A Cross-Country Investigation
- A comprehension empirical investigation is carried out to ascertain the import-reducing effect of trade protection barriers. This paper first presents a statistical summary of the status of global trade protection. Then, based on a monopolistic competition trade model and 1994 cross-country data on trade on trade barriers, trade flows and...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Trade Finance and Trade Flows: Panel Data Evidence From 10 Crises
- This paper assesses the effect of constrained trade finance on trade flows in countries undergoing financial and balance of payments crises. Most of the countries that had a major crisis had a significant trade contraction, while trade-related finance declined sharply. To estimate the effect of constrained trade finance on trade...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Geographical Extension of Free Trade Zones as Trade Liberalization: A Numerical Simulation Approach
- This article considers progressive geographical expansion of free trade zones within countries as a form of trade liberalization and compares observationally equivalent liberalization involving changes in the coverage of a free trade zone for a fixed tariff rate, and tariff reductions applying to all trade if there are no free...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- The Theory of Trade Policy and Trade Agreements: A Critique
- During the past half century, multilateral trade liberalization has reduced tariffs to historically low levels. The Received Theory of multilateral trade agreements, based solely on terms-of trade externalities between national governments, offers an explanation that has become the conventional wisdom among international trade theorists. But it displays two puzzles that...
- White papers 2005-03-23
- Firms In International Trade
- Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities; economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences present a challenge to standard trade models and shows how...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Spoiling world trade. (World Trade Organization should address the regional trade deals that threaten global trade)(Editorial)(Cover Story)
- Members of the World Trade Organization should take the opportunity at their Dec 1996 meeting in Singapore to eradicate aspects of their individual regional trade deals that discourage international trade. They should also strive to make the organization Members of the World Trade Organization should take the opportunity at their...
- Research articles 1996-12-07
- The phony "free trade" lobby: why the so-called "free trade" lobby is pushing a trade agenda that actually reduces free trade and American independence
- Mention "free trade" in any public discourse today, and one is likely to come up with such topics as NAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement CAFTA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA, the World Trade Organization WTO, and Fast Track Trade authority for the president. "Free...
- Research articles 2005-05-16
- E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptE*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation ETFC Q2 2009 Earnings Call July 22, 2009 5:00 pm ET Executives Don Layton - Chairman and CEO Bruce Nolop - EVP and CFO Paul Brandow – Managing Director, Risk Management Analysts Howard Chen - Credit Suisse Mike Vinciquerra - BMO Capital Markets Rich...
- Earnings calls 2009-07-22
- Trade Imbalances, International Investment, And A Limitation of Lerner's Symmetry Theorem
- This paper sounds a caution to international trade economists, demonstrating that the equilibrium trade imbalances implied by most models of international investment disturb the symmetry between import tariffs and export taxes found by Lerner (1936). When trade is unbalanced, Lerner's equivalence result holds only when: Trade tax revenue is redistributed...
- White papers 2005-07-19
- Momentum grows in talks on ins. trade. (World Trade Organization negotiations over international insurance trade)
- Washington Momentum appears to be growing towards a successful conclusion to World Trade Organization talks in Geneva aimed at liberalizing trade in insurance and other financial services, an insurance industry trade expert believes. Gordo Washington...
- Research articles 1997-11-10
- WAL-MART URGED TO SET UP TRADE UNION IN BEIJING
- AsiaInfo Services 11-02-2004 Wal-Mart Urged to Set Up Trade Union in Beijing BEIJING, Nov 02, 2004 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Beijing Trade Union stated thatforeign-funded companies should establish trade unions, and the trade unions at municipal AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2004-11-02
- World Trade Center officials see benefit to institute here.(planning for World Trade Institute)(Brief Article)
- Officials at the World Trade Center Cleveland say a proposed World Trade Institute here would give Northeast Ohio manufacturers an edge in competing for greater export sales. The World Trade Institute, a joint venture of the World Trade Center Cle Officials at the...
- Research articles 2001-02-19
- Free trade debate heats up in Washington.(debate on free trade in recent House and Senate trade policy hearings )(Conference news)
- Byline: Mike Verespej The chilly reception U.S. trade representative Susan Schwab received in House and Senate trade policy hearings indicates a growing contention over the president's authority to negotiate free trade agreements. "We need Byline: Mike Verespej ...
- Research articles 2007-02-19
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