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Reporting an Experience on Design and Implementation of e-Health Systems on Azure Cloud
Electronic Health (e-Health) technology has brought the world with significant transformation from traditional paper-based medical practice to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-based sy...
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Centralized and Cooperative Transmission of Secure Multiple Unicasts Using Network Coding
The authors introduce a method for securely delivering a set of messages to a group of clients over a broadcast erasure channel where each client is interested in a distinct message. Each client is ab...
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Random Linear Network Codes for Secrecy Over Wireless Broadcast Channels
The authors consider a set of n messages and a group of k clients. Each client is privileged for receiving an arbitrary subset of the messages over a broadcast erasure channel, which generalizes scena...
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DSTBC Based DF Cooperative Networks in the Presence of Timing and Frequency Offsets
In Decode-and-Forward (DF) relaying networks, the received signal at the destination may be affected by multiple impairments such as multiple channel gains, Multiple Timing Offsets (MTOs), and Multipl...
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Analytical Evaluation of Coverage-Oriented Femtocell Network Deployment
This paper proposes a coverage-oriented femtocell network deployment scheme, in which the femtocell Base Stations (BSs) can decide whether to be active or inactive depending on their distances from th...
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On the Physical Layer Security in Large Scale Cellular Networks
This paper studies the information-theoretic secrecy performance in large-scale cellular networks based on a stochastic geometry framework. The locations of both base stations and the mobile users are...
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Impact of Channel Estimation Error on Secure Transmission Design
In this paper, the authors investigate the secure transmission design with practical assumptions on the Channel State Information (CSI). Specifically, the CSI of the legitimate link is imperfectly est...
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Root Optimization of Polynomials in the Number Field Sieve
The general number field sieve is the most efficient algorithm known for factoring large integers. It consists of several stages including polynomial selection, sieving, filtering, linear algebra and ...
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Outage Probability of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With Cooperative Relaying
In this paper, the authors analyze the performance of cooperative transmissions in wireless ad hoc networks with random node locations. According to a contention probability for message transmission, ...
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Tracking Large-Scale Video Remix in Real-World Events
Social information networks, such as YouTube, contains traces of both explicit online interaction (such as like, leaving a comment, or subscribing to video feed), and latent interactions (such as quot...
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Energy Efficient Coded Cooperative Data Exchange for Mobile Users
In this paper, the authors generalize the problem of network coded cooperative data exchange from a fixed broadcast topology to dynamic networks with mobile peers. In this problem a group of wireless ...
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Coded Cooperative Data Exchange for Multiple Unicasts
The advantages of coded cooperative data exchange have been studied in the literature. In this problem, a group of wireless clients are interested in the same set of packets (a multicast scenario). Ea...
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Unpicking the Knot: Teasing Apart VM/Application Interdependencies
Flexible and efficient runtime design requires an understanding of the dependencies among the components internal to the runtime and those between the application and the runtime. These dependencies a...
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Temporal Consistency Among Five-Sensory Events: Application to Multimedia Technology
While transmitting multi or five-sensory information after transduction, the concept of temporal consistency becomes an important issue at the receiving end from the point of view of context. Any viol...
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A Generalized Model for Cost and Fairness Analysis in Coded Cooperative Data Exchange
The authors consider the issues of cost and fairness in the problem of cooperative data exchange among a group of wireless clients. In this problem, each client initially holds a subset of packets and...
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Financial Intermediation And The International Business Cycle: The Case Of Small Countries With Big Banks
The authors examine the transmission mechanism of banking sector shocks in a two-country DSGE model. Assuming that the home country is small relative to the rest of world, they find that spillovers fr...
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Global Implications Of Japanese Economic Stagnation
Despite its key contribution to global economic growth through the 1960s and 1970s, in recent decades the rise of China has seen the importance of Japan recede from the public discourse. This is notwi...
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Voting On Income-Contingent Loans For Higher Education
The authors consider risk-averse individuals who differ in two characteristics - ability to benefit from education and inherited wealth - and analyze higher education participation under two alternati...
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Secrecy Transmission Capacity of Decentralized Wireless Networks
Secure communication over large-scale decentralized wireless networks is an extremely challenging task due to the cost and difficulty in establishing secret keys among all the nodes in a distributed m...
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Privacy Concerns of Users for Location-Based Mobile Personalization
With the proliferation of mobile technologies many firms have started using the mobile channel to advertise their products. To reduce the amount of irrelevant broadcast, location-based mobile services...
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Economic Growth And Political Survival
Using data for 160 countries for the period 1963-2001, this paper examines the short-run relationship between economic growth and changes in national leader. To address the potential endogeneity of ec...
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A Capital Mistake-The Neglected Effect Of Immigration On Average Wages
Much recent literature on the wage effects of immigration assumes that the return to capital, and therefore the average wage, is unaffected in the long run. If immigration is modelled as a continuous ...
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Inflation Variability And The Relationship Between Inflation And Growth
The authors examine the effect of inflation variability and economic growth using annual historical data on both developing and developed countries. The data cover 182 developing countries and 31 deve...
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Asian Trade Flows: Trends, Patterns And Projections
This paper provides trade flow projections for major Asian Developing Economies (ADEs) for the next two decades against the backdrop of an in-depth analysis of policy shifts and trade patterns over th...
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Market Inefficiency, Insurance Mandate And Welfare: U.S. Health Care Reform 2010
In this paper, the authors develop a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium OverLapping generations (OLG) model with endogenous health capital to study the macroeconomic effects of the Affordable Care...
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DDoS Protections for SMTP Servers
Many businesses rely on email of some form for their day to day operation. This is especially true for product support organizations, who are largely unable to perform their role in the company if the...
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The Alternative Decision Tree Learning Algorithm
The application of boosting procedures to decision tree algorithms has been shown to produce very accurate classifiers. These classifiers are in the form of a majority vote over a number of decision a...
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Economic Growth, Law And Corruption: Evidence From India
Is corruption influenced by economic growth? Are legal institutions such as the "Right to Information Act (RTI) 2005" in India effective in curbing corruption? Using a novel panel dataset covering 20 ...
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Distributed Fault Detection for Interconnected Second-Order Systems With Applications to Power Networks
Observers for distributed fault detection of interconnected second-order linear time invariant systems are studied. Particularly, networked systems under consensus protocols are considered and it is p...
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Incomplete Markets, Small Open Economy Monetary Policy And Equilibrium Determinacy
The authors propose an alternative and simple small open economy model with incomplete international asset markets. Asset market incompleteness breaks the "Monetary-policy isomorphism" between the sma...
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Towards a Low-Complexity Dynamic Decode-and-Forward Relay Protocol
The dynamic DecoDe-and-Forward (DDF) relaying protocol is a relatively new cooperative scheme which has been shown to achieve promising theoretical results in terms of diversity-multiplexing gain trad...
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Inflation, Macroeconomic Policy And Hunger: A Variation On A Theme
This paper re-emphasizes the importance of price stability as a tool for macroeconomic policy and make it more specific by considering a typically (unanticipated) advantage of stabilizing the Consumer...
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Money, Capital And Exchange Rate Fluctuations
The authors explore how the informational frictions underlying monetary exchange affect international exchange rate dynamics. Using a two-country, two-sector model, they show that information friction...
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Small But Effective: India's Targeted Unconditional Cash Transfers
India's approach to social security stresses the provision of subsidized food and public works. Targeted, unconditional cash transfers are little used, and have been little evaluated. An evaluation of...
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Indonesian Growth Dynamics
This paper provides an analytical narrative of Indonesian economic growth over the past two decades. Particular attention is paid to the key economic crisis events of 1997-98 and 2008-09, and how and ...
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The Role Of Energy In Economic Growth
Physics shows that energy is necessary for economic production and, therefore, economic growth but the mainstream theory of economic growth, except for specialized resource economics models, pays no a...
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Does The Size And Quality Of The Government Explain The Size And Efficiency Of The Financial Sector?
This paper examines the impact of two dimensions of the government, namely, size and quality, on two dimensions of the financial sector, size and efficiency, in a cross section of 71 economies. The pa...
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Financial Frictions And Credit Spreads
This paper uses the credit-friction model developed by Curdia and Woodford, in a series of papers, as the basis for attempting to mimic the behavior of credit spreads in moderate as well as in times o...
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Dynamics Of Health Insurance Ownership In Vietnam, 2004 - 06
Vietnam is undertaking health financing reform in an attempt to achieve universal health insurance coverage by 2014. Changes in health insurance policies have doubled the overall coverage between 2004...
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Cloud Computing and Online Search and Advertising Markets: Obstacles to Competition
This paper investigates obstacles to competition in the online advertising and search markets in Australia in the context of developments in cloud computing. It complements an earlier working paper th...
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Unpicking the Knot: Teasing Apart VM/Application Interdependencies
Flexible and efficient runtime design requires an understanding of the dependencies among the components internal to the runtime and those between the application and the runtime. These dependencies a...
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Root Optimization of Polynomials in the Number Field Sieve
The general number field sieve is the most efficient algorithm known for factoring large integers. It consists of several stages including polynomial selection, sieving, filtering, linear algebra and ...
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Will New Trends In Foreign Direct Investment Change The Structure Of Intra-Industry Trade Between China And Japan?
It is generally believed that Japan's cost-oriented and export-oriented direct investment has introduced a bilateral intra-industry trade pattern in China - Japan trade through which China imports acc...
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DSTBC Based DF Cooperative Networks in the Presence of Timing and Frequency Offsets
In Decode-and-Forward (DF) relaying networks, the received signal at the destination may be affected by multiple impairments such as multiple channel gains, Multiple Timing Offsets (MTOs), and Multipl...
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Random Linear Network Codes for Secrecy Over Wireless Broadcast Channels
The authors consider a set of n messages and a group of k clients. Each client is privileged for receiving an arbitrary subset of the messages over a broadcast erasure channel, which generalizes scena...
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Coded Cooperative Data Exchange for Multiple Unicasts
The advantages of coded cooperative data exchange have been studied in the literature. In this problem, a group of wireless clients are interested in the same set of packets (a multicast scenario). Ea...
Provided By Australian National University
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Energy Efficient Coded Cooperative Data Exchange for Mobile Users
In this paper, the authors generalize the problem of network coded cooperative data exchange from a fixed broadcast topology to dynamic networks with mobile peers. In this problem a group of wireless ...
Provided By Australian National University
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A Generalized Model for Cost and Fairness Analysis in Coded Cooperative Data Exchange
The authors consider the issues of cost and fairness in the problem of cooperative data exchange among a group of wireless clients. In this problem, each client initially holds a subset of packets and...
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Outage Probability of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks With Cooperative Relaying
In this paper, the authors analyze the performance of cooperative transmissions in wireless ad hoc networks with random node locations. According to a contention probability for message transmission, ...
Provided By Australian National University
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Analytical Evaluation of Coverage-Oriented Femtocell Network Deployment
This paper proposes a coverage-oriented femtocell network deployment scheme, in which the femtocell Base Stations (BSs) can decide whether to be active or inactive depending on their distances from th...
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On the Physical Layer Security in Large Scale Cellular Networks
This paper studies the information-theoretic secrecy performance in large-scale cellular networks based on a stochastic geometry framework. The locations of both base stations and the mobile users are...
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Competition Among The Manufacturing Exporters Of China And ASEAN In The U.S. Market, 1994-2001
This paper aims to compare changes in the competitive position of China and ASEAN-4 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand) as exporters of manufactured goods to the US market between 1994 and 2...
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Accountabililty And Institutions: The Path Of Parliamentary Accountability
The purpose of this paper is to explore the contention that the scope and meaning of accountability has changed. In effect the contention is that accountability is being redefined to exclude the requi...
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The Alternative Decision Tree Learning Algorithm
The application of boosting procedures to decision tree algorithms has been shown to produce very accurate classifiers. These classifiers are in the form of a majority vote over a number of decision a...
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DDoS Protections for SMTP Servers
Many businesses rely on email of some form for their day to day operation. This is especially true for product support organizations, who are largely unable to perform their role in the company if the...
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Is Foreign Aid A Vanguard Of Foreign Direct Investment? A Gravity-Equation Approach
This paper investigates whether and how foreign aid facilitates Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows into less developed countries. The authors employ a large data set of source-recipient country pai...
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Insular Decision-Making In The Board Room: Why Boards Retain And Hire Sub-Standard Ceos
It is widely believed that corporate boards are overly reluctant to fire their CEOs. The conventional explanation for retaining a CEO regardless of his/her talent is that a CEO chooses the board membe...
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Perceptions Regarding Entrepreneurship In An Emerging And Culturally Diverse Economy: A South African Survey
Of all the developing countries that participated in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey, South Africa was ranked the lowest, in terms of entrepreneurial activity. It is clear that South Africa...
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Tests of Machine Intelligence
Despite solid progress on many fronts over the last 50 years, artificial intelligence is still a very young field with many of its greatest achievements, and some of its most fundamental problems, yet...
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Towards a Low-Complexity Dynamic Decode-and-Forward Relay Protocol
The dynamic DecoDe-and-Forward (DDF) relaying protocol is a relatively new cooperative scheme which has been shown to achieve promising theoretical results in terms of diversity-multiplexing gain trad...
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A Feedback-Based Adaptive Broadcast Coding Scheme for Reducing In-Order Delivery Delay
The authors propose a new feedback-based adaptive coding scheme for a packet erasure broadcast channel. The main performance metric of interest is the delay. They consider two types of delay - decodin...
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Reporting an Experience on Design and Implementation of e-Health Systems on Azure Cloud
Electronic Health (e-Health) technology has brought the world with significant transformation from traditional paper-based medical practice to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-based sy...
Provided By Australian National University
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Market Inefficiency, Insurance Mandate And Welfare: U.S. Health Care Reform 2010
In this paper, the authors develop a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium OverLapping generations (OLG) model with endogenous health capital to study the macroeconomic effects of the Affordable Care...
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The New Global Crisis Makers: Economic Intervention And The Loss Of Strategic Leadership
The "Crisis exaggerators" are telling us that current economic conditions amount to an "Unprecedented" global economic recession. This is historically incorrect. What is unprecedented is the degree to...
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Distributed Fault Detection for Interconnected Second-Order Systems With Applications to Power Networks
Observers for distributed fault detection of interconnected second-order linear time invariant systems are studied. Particularly, networked systems under consensus protocols are considered and it is p...
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Multi Sensor Information Fusion: Distributed Agents-Based Paradigm
This paper describes a distributed agent-based paradigm for hybrid (soft and hard) computation involved in multisensor information (data) fusion. The computations are interpreted as the outcome arisin...
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Global Democracy: In The Beginning
Talk about global democracy seems to be fixated on a Reform-Act model of democracy, with 'One person one vote for all affected by the decisions' as for example in a second popularly-apportioned chambe...
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Global Production Sharing And US-China Trade Relations
This paper examines US-China trade relations, focusing on the ongoing process of global production sharing global production sharing - the breakup of the production processes into geographically separ...
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The Global Financial Crisis And Short-run Prospects For India
This paper provides an overview of the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) on the Indian economy. It identifies the channels through which the GFC has impacted the Indian economy and evaluates...
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A New Local Distance-Based Outlier Detection Approach for Scattered Real-World Data
Detecting outliers which are grossly different from or inconsistent with the remaining dataset is a major challenge in real-world KDD applications. Existing outlier detection methods are ineffective o...
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Approximating Monetary Policy: Case Study For The ASEAN-5
Empirical studies on the process of monetary policy making in a number of advanced economies have shown that a simple Policy Reaction Function (PRF) performs well in explaining the setting of monetary...
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Japanese Aid As A Prerequisite For FDI: The Case Of Southeast Asian Countries
This paper investigates the nexus between Japan's official development assistance and foreign direct investment inflows in Southeast Asian countries. An analysis of the geographical and sectoral decom...
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China's Integration Into Global Production Networks And Its Implications For Export-Led Growth Strategy In Other Countries In The Region
This paper examines the implications of China's rapid integration into global production networks for export performance of countries in Southeast Asia. In a clear departure from the conventional prac...
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Global Implications Of Japanese Economic Stagnation
Despite its key contribution to global economic growth through the 1960s and 1970s, in recent decades the rise of China has seen the importance of Japan recede from the public discourse. This is notwi...
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Indonesian Growth Dynamics
This paper provides an analytical narrative of Indonesian economic growth over the past two decades. Particular attention is paid to the key economic crisis events of 1997-98 and 2008-09, and how and ...
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Unbundled Institutions, Human Capital And Growth
The authors investigate the partial effects of institutions and human capital on growth. They find that cross-country regressions of the log-level of per capita GDP on instrumented measures of institu...
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Total Factor Productivity And Economic Growth In Indonesia
This paper revisits the discussion about the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth to Indonesia's economic growth during 1970-2007. It re-estimates the contribution of TFP to economic...
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The Role Of Energy In Economic Growth
Physics shows that energy is necessary for economic production and, therefore, economic growth but the mainstream theory of economic growth, except for specialized resource economics models, pays no a...
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Global Production Sharing, Trade Patterns And Determinants Of Trade Flows
This paper examines the extent and pattern of global production sharing, focusing on East Asia, and probes its implications for the analysis of the determinants of trade flows. Reflecting rapid global...
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East Asian Exports In The Global Economic Crisis: The Decoupling Fallacy And Post-crisis Policy Challenges
This paper examines the export experience of East Asian economies in the aftermaths of the global financial crisis against the backdrop of pre-crisis trade patterns. The analysis is motivated by the '...
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