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An Empirical Analysis of the Linder
No full textThis paper presents empirical evidence in support of the Linder theory of international trade for three of the South Asian countries, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. This finding implies that these countries trade more intensively with countries of other regions, which may have similar per capita income levels, as predicted by Linder in his hypothesis. The contribution of this research is threefold: first, there is new information on the Linder hypothesis by focusing on South Asian countries; second, this is one of very few analyses to capture both time-series and cross-section elements of the trade relationship by employing a panel data set; third, the empirical methodology used in this analysis corrects a major shortcoming in the existing literature by using a censored dependent variable in estimation.
Product Quality, Linder, and the Direction of Trade
No full textA substantial amount of theoretical work predicts that quality plays an important role as a determinant of the global patterns of bilateral trade. This paper develops an empirical framework to estimate the empirical relevance of this prediction. In particular, it identifies the effect of quality operating on the demand side through the relationship between per capita income and aggregate demand for quality. The model yields predictions for bilateral flows at the sectoral level, and is estimated using cross-sectional data for bilateral trade among 60 countries in 1995. The empirical results confirm the theoretical prediction: rich countries tend to import relatively more from countries that produce high quality goods. The paper also shows that a severe aggregation bias explains the failure of the literature so far to find consistent empirical support for the "Linder hypothesis", the conjectured corollary to the first theory relating product quality and the direction of trade.
Differentiated Agri-Food Product Trade and the Linder Effect
No full textUsing a generalized gravity equation, this study tests for the Linder effect in differentiated agrifood product trade, i.e. as the demand structures of two countries become more similar, their trade intensity increases. Two proxies of demand structure, the Balassa index and the absolute value of the difference in per capita GDPs of trading partners, are used to capture the Linder effect. In addition, two measures of bilateral trade, the Grubel and Lloyed index, and the value of bilateral trade are used as the dependent variable. The study investigates the role of the Linder effect in explaining the trade of 37 differentiated agri-food and beverage products categorized into eight product groups: cereals; fresh fish; frozen fish; vegetables; fresh fruit; processed fruit; tea and coffee; and alcoholic beverages. The data covers trade across 52 developed and developing countries from 1990 to 2000. The type of proxy used for the Linder effect and the way in which bilateral trade is measured influence the outcome of the statistical tests for the Linder effect. The Linder effect for cereals, frozen fish, vegetables, processed fruits, and tea and coffee, using the value of trade as the dependent variable, is often accepted but it is generally rejected when the GL index is used as the measure of trade intensity. In brief, the results do not provide strong support for the Linder effect in the trade of differentiated agri-food products.Agri-food, Generalized Gravity Equation, Grubel and Lloyed index, Linder Effect, trade, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade,
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Beyond Lesson Studies and Design Experiments: Using theoretical tools in practice and finding out how they work
No full textThis paper aims to illustrate how fruitful insights into the link between school teaching practice and student learning outcomes can be theoretically grounded by the variation theory from the field of phenomenography; and from this framework demonstrate how a 'pedagogy of awareness' can be implemented in the classroom. In this study, five teachers and 162 students at Primary Four level of school education in Hong Kong participated and the practice of the 'learning study' was adopted. By comparing the results of pre- and posttests, a significant gain was observed in the students learning outcomes.
RABGTPases in MT1-MMP trafficking and cell invasion : physiology versus pathology
No full textThe matrix metalloproteinase MT1-MMP is a central regulator of cell invasion in both physiological and pathological settings, such as tissue surveillance by immune cells and cancer cell metastasis. MT1-MMP cleaves a plethora of intra- and extracellular proteins, including extracellular matrix proteins, matrix receptors, and also other MMPs, and thus enables modification of both the cell surface proteome and the pericellular environment. Despite its importance for cell invasion, the pathways regulating MT1-MMP exposure on the cell surface are largely unknown. Recently, our groups discovered that a specific subset of RABGTPases, most notably RAB5a, is critical for MT1-MMP trafficking in primary human macrophages and carcinoma cells. Here, we discuss and contrast our findings for both cell types, pointing out common features and differences in the RABGTPase-dependent trafficking of MT1-MMP in health and disease
Advertisement - Prof. G. Lorraine Linder, Phrenological Examinations
No full textThe advertisement begins with "Know Thyself!" and contains reviews from newspapers like the Chicago Times and Ottawa Free Press. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is quoted "Prof Linder is undeniably the peer of the greatest living Phrenologist. Unlike a great many who style themselves Phrenologists, he is a thorough Anatomist and Physiologist, and wherever he touches the subject he shows the hand of a master. The value of a Phrenological examination at his hands cannot be overestimated.
Purely kinetic coupled gravity
No full textCosmic acceleration can be achieved not only with a sufficiently flat scalar field potential but through kinetic terms coupled to gravity. These derivative couplings impose a shift symmetry on the scalar field, aiding naturalness. We write the most general purely kinetic action not exceeding mass dimension 6 and obeying second order field equations. The result reduces to a simple form involving a coupling of the Einstein tensor with the kinetic term and can be interpreted as adding a new term to Galileon gravity in curved spacetime. We examine the cosmological implications of the effective dark energy and classify the dynamical attractor solutions, finding a quasistable loitering phase mimicking late time acceleration by a cosmological constant. © 2011 Elsevier B.V
Verlandete Altwässer auf der Niederterrasse bei Köln?: Die Entstehung des Linder Bruchs aufgrund einer Pollen- und Großrestanalyse
No full textDas auf der rechten Niederterrasse des Rheins südlich Wahn gelegene Linder Bruch wurde pollenanalytisch untersucht und als Ergänzung eine Analyse der Makroflora durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, daß die organischen Ablagerungen erst an der Pollengrenze X/XI (nach Overbeck & Schneider) beginnen, und daß sie nicht aus einem Altwasser hervorgegangen sind. Das Linder Bruch entstand vielmehr durch die sekundäre Versumpfung einer ausgetrockneten Flußrinne, die wahrscheinlich dem Rheinsystem angehört. Die zur Versumpfung notwendigen Wassermassen lieferte die unmittelbar benachbarte Mittelterrasse. Ungeklärt bleibt zunächst noch die Frage nach der unterschiedlichen Wasserzufuhr in das Linder Bruch. Hier könnten Beziehungen zu einer wechselnden Bewaldung in Verbindung mit der Besiedlung der Mittelterrasse bestehen. Auch die Ursachen der Verhinderung einer früheren Versumpfung bedürfen noch der Feststellung. Es wird die Vermutung ausgesprochen, daß das Merheimer Bruch bei Köln, das ähnlich wie das Linder Bruch in einer ehemaligen Flußrinne auf der rechten Niederterrasse des Rheins liegt, ebenfalls durch eine sekundäre Versumpfung entstanden ist.researc
Bilateral trade flows and income-distribution similarity
No full textThis paper accounts for non-homothetic preferences by specifically investigating the role of income per capita and income-distribution differences in the context of the gravity model of trade. A theoretically justified gravity model is estimated for disaggregated trade data using a sample of 104 exporters and 108 importers for 1980-2003 to achieve two main goals. First we are able to empirically test some of the theoretical predictions of Markusen (2010), namely that there is a positive dependence of trade on per capita income and that higher inequality increase trade of more sophisticated goods. Second, and in line with the Linder hypothesis, we hypothesized that a higher demands’ overlap implies a more similar demand structure and therefore more trade. We test this hypothesis with new measures of income-distribution similarity. National income distributions are used to calculate income similarity indices that measure how much each country pair overlaps in terms of income distribution and population. We find that per capita income is positively related to bilateral trade and that on average, a 10 percent increase in incomedistribution similarities increases exports by almost 4 percent being this effect stronger for more sophisticated goods in comparison with more homogenous ones.Exports, Income distribution, Gravity equation, Density estimation, Non-homothetic prefereces.
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