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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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Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...
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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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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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and Caribbean (LAC) countries, their trade and investment ties are still in their very early stages, and the … complementarily of factor endowments dominates their bilateral trade pattern. By examining the determinants of trade performance of … investment(FDI) based intra-industry trade. Policies that encourage deep economic integration would help Latin America firms …
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The 1994 Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (the WTO Agreement), requires each WTO member to …
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