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This article examines the volatility dependence between the crude oil price and four US dollar exchange rates using … both fractional cointegration and copula techniques. The former exploits the long memory behavior of the volatility … to explore whether the volatility of the markets are linked in the short run. The cointegration results conclude in favor …
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In the light of the economically rational expectation theory, this article shows how an expert chooses an optimal oil price forecast function given that information is costly. In this framework we propose an expectational process which nests all processes considered in the literature. By...
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The purpose of this paper is to formalize the choices of market entry strategy (Export Vs Greenfield investment Vs Cross … export credible threats. If greenfield FDI is viable, entering firm prefers acquiring the low-productivity firm, when the …, there is always the ambiguity between the foreign firm's preference and the government's judgment. If export entry option is …
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Multinational and exporting firms play a key role in trade patterns. To highlight the importance of intra-firm trade in share of world trade, this paper develops a model of trade and intra-firm trade with heterogeneous firms. In this set up, trade costs apply to both exports and multinational...
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This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....
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volatility of the index and the reversibility phenomenon. We study the formal link between the repeat-sales index and the price …
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This paper examines the role of the labour share in creating instability in a small open economy. We assume that financial markets are imperfect so that entrepreneurs are credit constrained, and that this constraint is tighter for low levels of financial development. Aghion, Bacchetta and...
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market depth) or increase (due to more speculation) volatility. As the identification of these effects ultimately remains an … empirical question, we use daily data from April 2005 to April 2008 to document volatility behavior in the EU ETS. By … introduction of the option market had no effect on the volatility in the EU ETS. These finding are robust to other likely …
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credits; 2) macroeconomic troubles, including loss of competitiveness and macroeconomic volatility; 3) decrease of aid returns …
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not only a rigorous approach of trends and volatility, but also efficient calculations which were already successfully …
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