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This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the source country deviates from the reported import value...
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In some countries a Paasche price index based on unit values is compiled as a proxy for a true Paasche (or Laspeyres) price index on the basis of prices. This is for example the case in German foreign trade statistics. Unit values are average prices referring to a 'commodity number' (CN), that...
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The trade collapse that followed the recent financial crisis has led to a renewed interest on the measurement issues affecting international merchandise trade statistics in the new globalized economy. The international fragmentation of industrial production blurs the concept of country of origin...
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Der internationale Warenhandel wird doppelt erfasst: einerseits in der Exportstatistik des Lieferlandes, andererseits in der Importstatistik des Empfangslandes. Auf Basis dieser beiden Quellen werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit für die Jahre 1992 und 2000 Handelsmatrizen berechnet, in denen die...
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Several factor-based models are estimated to investigate the role of country-specific trade and survey data in forecasting euro area manufacturing production. Following Boivin and Ng (2006), the emphasis is put on the role of dataset selection on the empirical performance of factor models....
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Deutsche Anleger halten einen beträchtlichen Teil ihres Vermögens direkt oder indirekt im Ausland. Während der Finanzkrise sind in vielen Ländern die Preise von Vermögenswerten (zum Teil drastisch) gesunken. Dies betraf auch deutsche Anleger. Es ist allerdings schwierig, ihre...
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Die Verbundaktivitäten deutscher Unternehmen gewinnen seit geraumer Zeit an Bedeutung. Darin schlägt sich nieder, dass sie funktional stärker differenziert und spezialisiert sowie zunehmend internationalisiert sind. Nachdem sich die globale Arbeitsteilung geändert hat, stößt die klassische...
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This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the source country deviates from the reported import value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264499
This paper analyses revisions of Swiss current account data, taking into account the actual data revision process and the implied types of revisions. In addition we investigate whether the first release of current account data can be improved upon by the use of survey results as gathered by the...
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