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This study provides evidence that shocks to the supply of trade finance have a causal effect on U.S. exports. The … a U.S. bank’s share of the trade finance market in a country is, the larger should be the effect on exports to that … effects on export growth. A shock of one standard deviation to a country’s supply of trade finance decreases exports, on …
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We extend a standard New Keynesian model both to incorporate heterogeneity in spending opportunities along with two sources of (potentially time-varying) credit spreads and to allow a role for the central bank's balance sheet in determining equilibrium. We use the model to investigate the...
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market countries we estimate that vertical specialization accounts for up to 30 percent of world exports, and has grown as …
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-through. Second, we test and quantify the theoretical mechanisms using Belgian firm-product-level data with information on exports by … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …
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Several recent studies document that the extent to which banks transmit shocks across borders depends on the type of foreign activities these banks engage in. This paper proposes a model to explain the composition of banks’ foreign activities, distinguishing between international interbank...
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the short term, but can cause a higher equilibrium unemployment rate in the long term. Employment subsidies succeed in …
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policy implications. In particular, Peltzman had observed in his classic 1973 paper that in-kind subsidies can induce …
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This paper is the first to document the presence of a private premium in public bonds. We find that spreads are 31 basis points higher for public bonds of private companies than for bonds of public companies, even after controlling for observable differences, including rating, financial...
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