In the first section the paper describes the weak position held by Africa in the global trade of goods and identifies key determinants of the region’s industrial performance. It goes on to outline shifts in the overall structure of international trade and production, together with the challenges they pose for Africa. It analyses the reasons for low productivity rates, points to missed export op...

The industrial sector can develop with government policies and trade between countries. Industrialization plays an important role in improving the quality of human resources optimally utilizing natural other resources. To analyze effect partially on exports four- six-wheeled CBU vehicles Indonesia from 2015 to 2019. purpose this study is rupiah exchange rate against US dollar simultaneously fou...

Online games increasingly sell virtual goods to generate real income. As a result, it is increasingly important to identify factors and theory of consumption values that affect intent to purchase virtual goods in online games. However, very little research has been devoted to the topic. This study is an empirical investigation of the factors and theory of consumption values that affect intent t...

The objective of this document is to decompose the gross value bilateral exports automotive sector in NAFTA region, according source and destination its added. A multi-country input-output model utilized. results indicate that Canada Mexico are highly dependent on U.S. inputs produce while records highest content domestic value-added. Besides, has formed production chains supply with after proc...

Carbon Border Tax Adjustments (BTAs) are a politically popular strategy for avoiding competitive disadvantage problems when a country implements a unilateral climate change policy. A BTA taxes carbon embodied in imported goods in order to protect domestic industry and motivate other countries to implement climate change policy. To estimate the effectiveness of a BTA, is it is necessary to know ...

The article discusses the role of sustainable transport systems in competitiveness Georgian agri-food products. products are less competitive on international markets. country has FTAs with its partners that should make goods more competitive, at least terms price. Transport and logistics is one main parts export, therefore, they have an impact exported goods. Georgia trades neighbour countries...

In this paper, we shed additional light on the complex relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs), exporting and economic development by making a distinction between single and multi-product firms. As far as we are aware, the export behavior of foreign firms in a multi-product setting has not previously been considered for a developing country. Using firm-level data for Thailand we s...

A generic model for the monetary flow in multi-level marketing schemes for virtual goods, so called incentive management systems, is introduced and analysed. It is shown that such schemes can in principle be fair, and it is argued that they can be viably realised if the value of the distributed good is positive. It is shown how the monetary incentive a buyer receives through the scheme can be p...

ness of an element is the ratio of in-degrees over in-degrees plus out-degrees of the element, and ranges from 0 to l (Pieters et al. 1995). Elements with high abstractness scores are

I characterize a finite additive utility representation for preferences over menus. The numbers of both positive and negative components in this representation are expressed explicitly in terms of preference. These expressions can be used to characterize models of temptation, perfectionism, context effects, and other phenomena. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. JEL classification: D81