Export intensity and competitiveness of Indonesia's crude palm oil to main destination countries

Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy

This paper examines the impact of the revocation of tariff exemptions on exports of developing countries using data from cases of the Competitive Needs Limits (CNL), a feature of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). CNLs are arguably imposed on “super competitive” GSP beneficiaries and aim to reserve the GSP benefits for other “less competitive” GSP eligible countries. The empirical ...

Do multinational retailers affect the export competitiveness of host countries ?

Hedging Effectiveness of Crude Palm Oil Futures Market in Malaysia

This paper investigated the hedging effectiveness of crude palm oil futures market in Malaysia from January 2009 to June 2011 which traded under Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad. Ordinary Least Squared (OLS) method was used to compute Minimum-Variance hedging ratio (MVHR), R-squared and hedging effectiveness by using daily data from settlement price of crude palm oil futures contracts and spot...

Agri-Food Export Competitiveness in European Union Countries

This article investigates the competitiveness of agri-food exports of the European Union (EU27) countries on global markets, using the revealed comparative advantage (B) index over the 2000–2011 period. Panel unit root tests, mobility index and the Kaplan-Meier survival rates of the B index are used. The majority of agri-food products in the EU-27 countries show a comparative disadvantage on gl...

Price Discovery through Crude Palm Oil Futures: An Economic Evaluation

This paper examines the forward pricing efficiency of the local crude palm oil (CPO) futures market. In an efficient market, the relevant signal to be used by -the producers, traders and processors is simply the futures price. The forward pricing efficiency is measured in terms of the forecasting ability of Malaysian crude palm oil futures price on physical price. The relative predictive power ...