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Scope for Export-Led Growth in a Large Emerging Economy: Is India Learning by Exporting?

Tabrizy, Saleh S.; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the …

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The Impact of International Outsourcing on the Skill Structure of Employment: Empirical Evidence from German Manufacturing Industries

Diehl, Markus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices … for final goods with prices of primary factors, most empirical studies have only dealt with international trade in final …

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A Bargaining Theory of Trade Invoicing and Pricing

Goldberg, Linda; Tille, Cédric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

We develop a theoretical model of international trade pricing in which individual exporters and importers bargain over … correlation between invoicing currency and the size of trade transactions …

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Are All Measures of International Reserves Created Equal? An Empirical Comparison of International Reserve Ratios

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Yuk-Pang Wong, Clement - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Using available annual data of 174 economies since 1957, we examine the similarities and differences of seven international reserve ratios. While individual international reserve ratios display substantial variations across economies, they are associated with an economy?s characteristics...

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Do Real Exchange Rate Appreciations Matter for Growth?

Bussière, Matthieu; Lopez, Claude; Tille, Cédric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

While the impact of exchange rate changes on economic growth has long been an issue of key importance in international macroeconomics, it has received renewed attention in recent years, owing to weaker growth rates and the debate on "currency wars". However, in spite of its prevalence in the...

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Learning by Exporting: Does It Matter Where One Learns?

Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through product quality upgrading. This study is based on the observation that the technological superiority and severity of product quality requirements are not the same in...

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Are current account deficits sustainable? New evidence from Iran using bounds test approach to level relationship

Heidari, Hassan; Katircioglu, Salih Turan; Davoudi, Narmin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between exports and imports of the Iranian economy by employing bounds test approach to level relationship. In Iran, there have been many unusual policy changes and/or external shocks to the economy which resulted in the occurrence of...

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From trade preferences to trade facilitation: Taking stock of the issues

Persson, Maria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. …

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Export Subsidies in a Heterogeneous Firms Framework

Helmers, Christian; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We evaluate the impact of firm-specific export subsidies on exports in Colombia. Using a two-stage Heckman selection procedure, we obtain firm-specific predicted subsidy amounts that can be explained by the characteristics that determine the firms’ eligibility for the government support and...

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The Role of Multinational Enterprises in Globalization: An Empirical Overview

Kleinert, Jörn - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

transfer of knowledge and technology and to foreign trade. It is argued that economic theory must account for multinationalsÂ …

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