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investigation, I build a multi-country trade model with endogenous adoption of a new transportation technology that is consistent … future usage, adoption costs, and trade with the United States, the first and largest user of containerization. …
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The absence of data has, until now, precluded virtually all research on trading volume in the foreign exchange market. This paper introduces a new high-frequency foreign exchange dataset from EBS (Electronic Broking Service) that includes trading volume in the global interdealer spot market. The...
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Using consumer price indexes from cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, we estimate the "border effect" on U.S.-Mexican relative prices and find that it is nearly an order of magnitude larger than for U.S.-Canadian prices. However, during a very stable sub-period in Mexico (May 1988 to November...
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countries have collectively seen an improvement in their terms of trade during the crisis, reversing pre-crisis declines. The …
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Though China's share of world trade is comparable to that of Japan, little is known about the response of China's trade … to changes in exchange rates. The few estimates available suffer from two limitations. First, the data for trade prices … empirical model explaining the shares of China's exports and imports in world trade in terms of the real effective value of the …
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We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance …
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Trade credit--credit extended by a seller who does not require immediate payment for delivery of a product--is an …' nonmortgage loans from banks. Trade credit apparently is especially important for small businesses: In the same year, it accounted … for about 20 percent of small firms' liabilities. ; Businesses that choose to finance their purchases through trade credit …
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We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring …
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This paper examines the relative importance of global, country-specific, and industry-specific factors in both the cash flow and discount rate components of equity returns between 1995 and 2003. Our framework draws upon previously separate literatures on country versus industry effects and...
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We offer evidence that interest rate spreads on syndicated loans to corporate borrowers are economically significantly smaller in Europe than in the U.S., other things equal. Differences in borrower, loan and lender characteristics associated with equilibrium mechanisms suggested in the...
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