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Real exchange rates between the yen and dollar based on general price indexes overestimate the competitiveness of the United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a continuous fall in the prices of traded goods relative to...
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We study global trade responses to the US-China trade war. We estimate the tariff impacts on product-level exports to … the US, China, and rest of world. On average, countries decreased exports to China and increased exports to the US and … rest of world. Most countries export products that complement the US and substitute China, and a subset operate along …
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This paper examines the degree to which the learning by doing externality [LBD] calls for an undervalued exchange rate, a policy suggested by recent empirical studies which concluded that mildly undervalued real exchange rate may enhance growth. We obtain mixed results. For an economy where LBD...
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This paper investigates the sources of terms of trade volatility, specifically addressing the relative importance of …
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It has been suggested that countries which export in especially risky sectors will experience higher output volatility …. This measure is strongly correlated with terms-of-trade and output volatility, but does not exhibit a close relationship to …
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In the Belle Époque, Belgium recorded an unprecedented trade boom, but growth in output per capita was lackluster. We seek to reconcile this ostensible paradox. Because of the sharp decline in both fixed and variable trade costs, the trade boom was as much about the expansion in the number of...
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Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...
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We map United States comparative advantage between 1980 and 1995, by trading partner and region, using Balassa's export-based index of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA). We find: temporally stable and ubiquitous US comparative advantage in differentiated producer goods (except disadvantage in...
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This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic activities of foreign manufacturing affiliates of Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) and U.S. MNCs in those markets. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels...
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We introduce the real exchange rate volatility curve as a useful device to understand the role of price stickiness in … theory predicts that the real exchange rate volatility curve is a U-shaped function of the degree of price stickiness. Using … sector-level European real exchange rate data and frequency of price changes, we estimate the volatility curve. The results …
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