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The absence of data has, until now, precluded virtually all research on trading volume in the foreign exchange market. This paper introduces a new high-frequency foreign exchange dataset from EBS (Electronic Broking Service) that includes trading volume in the global interdealer spot market. The...
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Using consumer price indexes from cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, we estimate the "border effect" on U.S.-Mexican relative prices and find that it is nearly an order of magnitude larger than for U.S.-Canadian prices. However, during a very stable sub-period in Mexico (May 1988 to November...
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countries have collectively seen an improvement in their terms of trade during the crisis, reversing pre-crisis declines. The …
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Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries, the People’s Republic … of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and intra-regional trade based on comparative advantage … and available factor endowments. In view of the recent wave of worldwide subregional and bilateral trade cooperation, and …
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We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …
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Previous studies by Freund & Weinhold (2004) and others have highlighted the trade promoting effect of the Internet … resistance. We employ a gravity framework to assess the role of Internet adoption on trade within OECD countries over the period … 1990-2010. We find that when multilateral resistance is controlled for, the Internet has a less clear cut effect on trade …
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The task of the Sub-committee was to review the existing methodologies for estimating the contribution of unorganised/informal sector to GDP and suggest measures to facilitate direct estimation. The Group reviewed the 'Labour input method' contained in an OECD publication titled 'Measuring the...
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Though China's share of world trade is comparable to that of Japan, little is known about the response of China's trade … to changes in exchange rates. The few estimates available suffer from two limitations. First, the data for trade prices … empirical model explaining the shares of China's exports and imports in world trade in terms of the real effective value of the …
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track all changes in the trade structure and competitiveness over time. The long-term trend of the indicators suggests that … the Austrian foreign trade sector was able to maintain its market share in the global environment. While the Austrian … foreign trade performance only slightly deviates from the pattern of the traditional industrialised countries, a strong …
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