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A Labour-Based Theory of International Trade
Minford, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
. Second, country net exports in expensive and cheap labor commodity groups are regressed on country wages. Finally, country … net exports are regressed on an index of skilled-labor-intensiveness for high-wage, low-wage and intermediate …
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Investment Liberalization and International Trade
Amiti, Mary; Wakelin, Katharine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper estimates the cross-price elasticity of exports with respect to investment costs for bilateral relations … between 36 countries. We show that the effect of reducing foreign direct investment costs on exports depends on country … and trade costs are low, investment liberalization stimulates exports, whereas when countries are similar in terms of …
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Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfalls
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Alex - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
increase in Ottoman exports, which in turn causes a 10 percent increase in capital inflows from the three source countries. Our …
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What Hinders Investment in the Aftermath of Financial Crises: Insolvent Firms or Illiquid Banks?
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Kamil, Herman; Villegas-Sanchez, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We provide evidence on the real effects of credit supply shocks utilizing a new firm-level database from six Latin American countries between 1990 to 2005. Holding creditworthiness constant through foreign currency debt exposure, we compare investment undertaken by domestic exporters to that of...
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How do different exporters react to exchange rate changes? Theory, empirics and aggregate implications
Berman, Nicolas; Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper analyzes the reaction of exporters to exchange rate changes. We present a model where, in the presence of distribution costs in the export market, high and low productivity firms react differently to a depreciation . Whereas high productivity firms optimally raise their markup rather...
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The Tip of the Iceberg: Modeling Trade Costs and Implications for Intra-Industry Reallocation
Irarrazabal, Alfonso; Moxnes, Andreas; Opromolla, Luca David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
When trade costs are of the iceberg type (Samuelson 1952) and markups are independent of trade costs, relative prices across markets are distorted, but relative prices within markets are not. When trade costs depart from the analytically convenient iceberg type, distortion will also occur within...
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Product and Process Innovation and Firms’ decision to Export
Vanbeveren, Ilke; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We analyze the relationship between firm-level innovation activities and firms’ propensity to start exporting for firms in a small open economy. We measure innovation by innovative effort (R&D) as well as by innovative output (product and process innovation). After carefully correcting for...
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Quantifying a Dangerous Obsession? Competitiveness and export performance in an OECD Panel of Industries
Carlin, Wendy; Glyn, Andrew J; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper analyses the impact of cost competitiveness and technology on export performance using a very rich panel dataset of 12 manufacturing industries in 14 OECD countries for the period between 1970 and 1992. Consistent with standard models, we find that changes in relative unit labour...
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Output and Exports in Transition Economies: A Labour Management Model
Estrin, Saul; Hare, Paul G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
damaging because firms respond by cutting exports disproportionately. This may explain why countries, such as those in the … former Soviet Union, which have faced serious supply bottlenecks have failed to develop exports while the economies of …
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Determinants of Korean Trade Flows and their Geographical Destination
Giorgianni, Lorenzo; Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s. …
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