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Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - 2009

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....

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The demographics of expropriation risk

Harms, Philipp; Meulen, Philipp an de - 2009

It is often argued that capital should flow from aging industrialized economies to countries with fast-growing populations. However, institutional failures and the risk of expropriation substantially reduce developing economies' attractiveness for foreign investors. We analyze the influence of a...

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Incomplete information processing : a solution to the forward discount puzzle

Bacchetta, Philippe; Van Wincoop, Eric - 2005

managed, we investigate to what extent incomplete information processing can explain this puzzle. Two types of incompleteness … are considered: infrequent and partial information processing. We calibrate a two-country general equilibrium model to the … data and show that incomplete information processing can fully match the empirical evidence. It can also account for …

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A scapegoat model of exchange rate fluctuations

Bacchetta, Philippe; Van Wincoop, Eric - 2004

of the exchange rate with noisy rational expectations, where investors have heterogeneous information on some structural …

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Can information heterogeneity explain the exchange rate determination puzzle?

Bacchetta, Philippe; Van Wincoop, Eric - 2003

introduce symmetric information dispersion about future fundamentals in a dynamic rational expectations model in order to …

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Deregulation and the current account

Harms, Philipp - 2004 - Update

We use a dynamic general-equilibrium model to study how removing barriers to competition in the nontraded goods sector affects the current account of a small open economy. We show that the expansion of the nontraded sector that results from such a "deregulation shock" is associated with an...

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Growing into and out of social conflict

Harms, Philipp; Zink, Stefan - 2002

We present a model of growth and distributional conflict that implies a non-monotonic relationship between average wealth and the likelihood of radical redistribution: while the net benefits of redistribution for members of the poor class are small at low stages of development, a shift towards...

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Why do consumer price react less than import prices to exchange rates?

Bacchetta, Philippe; Van Wincoop, Eric - 2002

It is well-known that the extent of pass-through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices is much lower than to import prices. One explanation is local distribution costs. Here we consider an alternative, complementary, explanation based on the optimal pricing strategies of firms. We consider...

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A theory of the currency denomination of international trade

Bacchetta, Philippe; Van Wincoop, Eric - 2001

Nominal rigidities due to menu costs have become a standard element in closed economy macroeconomic modeling. The "New Open Economy Macroeconomics" literature has investigated the implications of nominal rigidities in an open economy context and found that the currency in which prices are set...

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Trade flows, prices, and the exchange rate regime

Bacchetta, Philippe; Van Wincoop, Eric - 2000

This paper examines the relationship between the exchange rate regime and trade flows using a general equilibrium model based on Bacchetta and van Wincoop (AER, 2000). We show that in general the link between trade and the exchange rate regime is ambiguous and that it depends in particular on...

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