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Unpicking Portugal's export performance : a microdata analysis
Adamczyk, Paula; Westmore, Ben - 2020
Portugal has notably increased its international openness over recent decades, with exports’ share of GDP rising by 20 … expansion. While an improvement in price competitiveness played a significant role, the majority of the increase in exports was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304418
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The survival of Latvian products and firms in export markets
Benkovskis, Konstantins - 2022
This paper investigates factors that contribute to the survival of export relationships at the firm and product levels … better survival of a new export product. Furthermore, this paper reveals novel roles of export product characteristics in … survival, in particular an interesting tension between the complexity of new export products and their “distance” from the …
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Implications of financial transaction costs on the real economy : a note
Pelster, Matthias - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 113-118
This note studies the influence of a financial transaction tax and transaction costs on the optimal production and hedging strategies of a duopoly. Firms are exposed to demand uncertainty that leads to price risk and can hedge their risk exposure on a forward market. However, the forward...
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Chapter 5. Domestic Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage
Nunn, Nathan; Trefler, Daniel - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 263-315). 2014
Domestic institutions can have profound effects on international trade. This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of this insight. Particular attention is paid to contracting institutions and to comparative advantage, where the bulk of the research has been concentrated....
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Measures of International Transport Cost for OECD Countries
Golub, Stephen - 2008
This paper presents new estimates of country-specific international transport costs for 21 OECD countries over the period 1973-2005. The methodology is based on direct measures of air, maritime, and road transport costs rather than on cif/fob ratios or other balance of payments data employed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446930
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Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio; Tonon, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation between genetic distance and economic variables mean? Using the measure of genetic distance, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067648
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Measures of International Transport Cost for OECD Countries
Golub, Stephen S.; Tomasik, Brian - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
This paper presents new estimates of country-specific international transport costs for 21 OECD countries over the period 1973-2005. The methodology is based on direct measures of air, maritime, and road transport costs rather than on cif/fob ratios or other balance of payments data employed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045702
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How do transport costs affect firms’ exports? Evidence from a vanishing bridge
Volpe Martincus, Christian; Carballo, Jerónimo; … - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 149-153
In this paper we provide estimates of the effects of international transport costs on firms’ exports and disentangle …
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The Fallacy of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
It is not common for an entire scholarly literature to be based on a fallacy, that is, "on faulty reasoning; misleading or unsound argument". The 'fiscal theory of the price level', recently re-developed by Woodford, Cochrane, Sims and others, is an example of a fatally flawed research...
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Transport Cost Decline and Regional Inequalities: Evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
transport costs between the 341 French Employment Areas. We find that intermediate inputs and geographical features play a … for the structural parameters of the model, we finally provide simulations of French local sectoral employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791737