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Trade Flows and Exchange Rates : Importers, Exporters and Products
Devereux, Michael B. - 2019
Using highly-disaggregated transaction-level trade data, we document the importance of new firm-level trade partner relationships and the addition of new products to existing relationships in driving long-run import flows. Moreover, we find that these margins are sensitive to movements in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480259
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Can Structural Small Open Economy Models Account for the Influence of Foreign Disturbances?
Justiniano, Alejandro - 2008
between Canada and U.S. are essentially zero. Both findings are at odds with the data. A specification that assumes correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464100
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Defying Gravity : The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
Jacks, David S. - 2011
In the wake of the Great Depression, the Canadian government embarked on a stunning reversal in its commercial policy. A key element of its response was the promotion of intra-imperial trade at the Imperial Economic Conference of 1932. This paper addresses whether or not Canadian trade was able...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461415
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Trade, Variety, and Immigration
Bo, Chen - 2012
geographic areas. We consider the case of Canada, document its impressive experience with import variety growth in the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460696
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The Empire Project : Trade Policy in Interwar Canada
Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyze the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287339
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J. - 1997
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472755
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The Evolving External Orientation of Manufacturing Industries : Evidence from Four Countries
Campa, Jose - 1997
Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …, and the United Kingdom, but not in Japan. The observed increases in external orientation are in terms of industry export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472905
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Cost of Capital for the United States, Japan, and Canada : An Attempt at Measurement Based on Individual Company Records and Aggregate National Acccoun
Ando, Albert - 1997
countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472944
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International R&D Spillovers between Canadian and Japanese Industries
Bernstein, Jeffrey I. - 1995
This paper estimates the effects of intranational and international R&D spillovers on the cost and production structure for ten Canadian and Japanese manufacturing industries. Domestic spillovers generate greater effects on average variable cost and factor intensities compared to international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473466
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Investment, Pass-Through and Exchange Rates : A Cross-Country Comparison
Campa, Jose - 1995
movements remain an empirical question. Using detailed data from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473743