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Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to mid-century Mexico did better on this score than did most countries around … sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …
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This paper proposes classical business cycle turning points for a number of countries based on industrial production. The countries selected are the G7 together with most major European countries. This information enables us to examine the international nature of cyclical movements. In...
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This paper analyses the transmission of productivity shocks across countries and how the responses of investment and the current account differ depending on the degree of propagation of the shocks. We explore both issues by estimating a structural model for Japan, the United States and Europe....
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This paper is a first attempt to analyse the determinants of inter-firm R&D agreements between advanced and developing countries, i.e. between firms with asymmetric endowments of knowledge. It shows that international dispersion of R&D activity by multinationals also concerns developing...
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This paper investigates the effects of introducing household production in an international real business cycle model. We show how a model driven by disturbances to the household production can account for some features of international cycles. A version of the model which considers shocks to...
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level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …
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exports to the United States is exposed to an American downturn through a real channel. Despite the fact that we use a wide …
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm …-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for … constant markups. The differences are important quantitatively; price differences in Hungarian exports between Germany and the …
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adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …
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Exporters’ performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may … information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A … dollar increase in exports to the United States generates on average an extra 2 to 14 cents of exports to the rest of the …
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