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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Business Cycles in Asian Emerging Economies
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - CESifo - 2009
negative, but they are also influenced most by the global financial crisis. Finally, we find a significant link between trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013072
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Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India
Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri A.; … - CESifo - 2007
This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765925
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International Trade in Natural Resources: Practice and Policy
Ruta, Michele; Venables, Anthony J. - CESifo - 2012
Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010540254
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Which Conflicts can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Wijkman, Per Magnus - CESifo - 2012
, strong intraregional trade, and the prospect of accession to the EU. It concludes that the EU’s Member States must give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555696
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Inequality and Relative Reliance on Tariffs: Theory and Evidence
Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2005
In this paper we construct a Ricardian model of trade in vertically-differentiated products between a developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196297
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The Deepening China Brazil Economic Relationship
Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - CESifo - 2010
increased bilateral trade and foreign direct investment flows and also from enhanced cohesion of negotiating positions in … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil … the two countries has also significantly increased in recent years. Projections of future trade flows using current growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833874
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The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - CESifo - 2014
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks’ balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948836
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Estimating Fluctuations in Oil and Gas Investment
Dahl, Roy Endré; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2014
Governments in extraction countries are anxious to estimate expected investment in development projects, since they represent an essential element of the macro economy. The overall level of activity is also crucial to oil companies, since the macro picture affects cost levels, the supplies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948869
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Booms, Recessions and Financial Turmoil: A Fresh Look at Investment Decisions under Cyclical Uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - CESifo - 2009
The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework where demand shifts stochastically between three different states, each with different rates of drift and volatility. In our setting the shifts are governed by a three-state Markov...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013955
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Consumption, Wealth and Business Cycles in Germany
Hamburg, Britta; Hoffmann, Mathias; Keller, Joachim - CESifo - 2005
This paper studies the long-run relationship between consumption, asset wealth and income in Germany, based on data from 1980 to 2003. While earlier studies — mostly for the Anglo-Saxon economies — have generally documented that departures of these three variables from their common trend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765943