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Nominal and Real Exchange Rate Models in South Africa: How Robust are they?
Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012
This paper addresses difficulties in modelling exchange rates in South Africa. Real exchange rate models of earlier research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation methods. Alternative exchange rate models proposed in...
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Learning to Export from Neighbors
Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - CESifo - 2014
This paper studies how learning from neighboring firms affects new exporters’ performance and dynamics. We develop a …-level export data for all Chinese exporters over 2000-2006. Our findings are robust to controlling for firms’ supply shocks …
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Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on Exports: An Analysis of Indian Non-Financial Sector Firms
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Sengupta, Rajeswari - CESifo - 2013
We explore the real effective exchange rate (REER) effects on the share of exports of Indian non-financial sector firms for the period 2000 to 2010. Our empirical analysis reveals that, on average, there has been a strong and significant negative impact of currency appreciation as well as...
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Sources of Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations in Central and Eastern Europe – Temporary or Permanent?
Stazka, Agnieszka - CESifo - 2006
This paper investigates, using the SVAR model of Clarida and Gali (1994), the sources of real exchange rate fluctuations in eight Central and East European new EU member states. Theoretically, one should expect the real exchange rates of Exchange Rate Mechanism II participants to be primarily...
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The Evolution of the East Asian Currency Baskets – Still Undisclosed and Changing
Schnabl, Gunther - CESifo - 2006
Both before and after the Asian crisis, the dollar has been the dominant anchor and reserve currency in East Asia. Due to underdeveloped capital markets and the limited international role of their domestic currencies, the East Asian countries (except Japan) are likely to continue to stabilize...
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Exports, Unemployment and the Welfare State
Janeba, Eckhard - CESifo - 2007
compensation. Thus more firms within an industry and more industries become exporters. The above findings are consistent with …
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Globalization: A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap
Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska; … - CESifo - 2015
firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to higher competition, exporters require greater commitment and … men, exporters will statistically discriminate against female employees and will exhibit a higher GWG than non-exporters … between the genders and show that the initially higher GWG observed in exporting firms relative to non-exporters has gone down …
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Income Inequality and Export Prices across Countries
Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - CESifo - 2013
leads to higher average prices. We test the theory using detailed data for Brazilian exporters and find that the destination …
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Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
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Recent Estimates of Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices in the Euro Area
Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2015
This paper provides an update on the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) estimates for 12 euro area (EA) countries. First, based on quarterly data over the 1990-2012 period, our study does not find a significant heterogeneity in the degree of pass-through across the monetary union members, in...
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