The assumption of the Peterson paper is that currency interventions are undertaken by foreign governments to suppress domestic currency values in order to render export prices more competitive.
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Yuan appreciation not only bolsters the buying power of Chinese consumers, but it makes Chinese-based producers and assemblers more competitive because the relative prices of their imported inputs fall, reducing their costs of production.
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According to Huckabee's reckoning, his plan will promote capital investment in the U.S. and make domestic goods cheaper and more competitive overseas because their prices will no longer be inflated by the payment of corporate taxes.
" He added: "As prices become more competitive, sites like SeatGuru become more important.
And if more competitive farming pushed up land prices, it would boost the collateral held by overextended banks.
The hope by those involved is it will make health plans more competitive and lead to better prices for consumers just like online retail shopping has done in other industries.
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So although the Russian construction market is legendarily corrupt, and although prices are far higher than they would be in a more competitive and transparent market, goods are actually allocated through prices and not purely through administrative fiat.
Energy policy is crucial: Developing America's domestic resources means every other industry in the economy can take advantage of lower energy prices and become more globally competitive.
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Some of the things Vietnam wants and needs to do to make the economy more competitive in the long term are pushing up prices in the short term.
These efforts have been helped by falling panel prices that have made solar more cost competitive.
Moreover, the yuan has become more competitive thanks to a sharp fall in inflation: prices, which three years ago were rising by 27% a year, are falling today.
While monopolies have more power to charge higher prices than firms in competitive markets, there are times when it makes sense to allow them if their prices are regulated.
If the deal is permitted to go through, the U.S. beer industry will become that much less competitive and give ABI even more control over beer prices for Americans, the suit argues.
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While plasma displays also saw great gains, performance improvements, and price drops this year, LCD effectively fought the war on two fronts, driving down prices in small televisions while getting more competitive with plasma at 42-inch and larger sizes.
PriceWaterHouseCoopers adds that their energy prices will dramatically fall, making them more competitive.
Not only is the yen relatively weak in nominal terms, but falling prices in Japan have made it even more competitive.
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Robb warns that they may ease down a bit in order to make the prices for its largely more expensive organic products more competitive.
Here's the economics bit: if those periphery countries are going to become more competitive, without a currency depreciation, it follows that their domestic prices and wages need to fall, relative to German ones, and their domestic consumption needs to grow more slowly than their net exports.
It has also partially deregulated diesel prices to reduce its subsidy bill, and extended some benefits to exporters to make them more competitive and help revive economic activity.
Since September, the government has eased foreign investment restrictions in key sectors such as retail and civil aviation, partially deregulated diesel prices to reduce its subsidy bill, and extended some benefits to exporters to make them more competitive and help revive economic activity.
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