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Commodity Export Boom and the Real Exchange Rate : The Money-Inflation Link
Edwards, Sebastian - 1985
traditional Dutch-Disease case without money. The model is tested using data for Colombia …
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Commodity Export Prices and the Real Exchange Rate in Developing Countries : Coffee in Colombia
Edwards, Sebastian - 1985
, inflation, and the real exchange rate in a developing country is developed. The model is then tested using data for Colombia. A … number of experts have argued that the fluctuations of Colombia's real exchange rate have been mainly determined by world … indicate that in Colombia, the real appreciation resulting from coffee price increases has been accommodated, partially by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477515
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Capital Flows, Real Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls : Some Latin American Experiences
Edwards, Sebastian - 1998
This paper deals with some of the most important aspects of Latin America's experience with capital flows during the last twenty-five years. The paper begins with a historical analysis. I then deal with the sequencing of reform and discuss issues related to the relationship between capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472013
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Multinational Firms : Reconciling Theory and Evidence
Markusen, James R. - 1999
An important component of Robert Lipsey's work has been his research on multinational firms, and his careful documentation of their behavior in terms of production and intra-firm trade. In this paper, we extend recent theory referred to as the knowledge-capital model', which simultaneously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471624
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Accounting for the Evolution of China's Production and Trade Patterns
Huang, Hanwei; Ju, Jiandong; Yue, Vivian Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global economy. We document and explain new facts concerning changes in production and exports at the industry and firm levels using microdata and a quantitative Ricardian and...
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Product Repositioning by Merging Firms
Atalay, Enghin; Sorensen, Alan T.; Sullivan, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine merging firms' additions and removals of products for a sample of 66 mergers across a wide variety of consumer packaged goods markets. We find that mergers lead to a net reduction in the number of products offered by merging firms. Merging firms tend to both drop and add products at...
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Conditional cash transfers in education design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia
Barrera Osorio, Felipe (contributor) - 2008
"We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the conditional cash transfer (CCT) -- with a student level randomization that allows us to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521179
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Crime and Gender Segregation : Evidence from the Bogota "Pico y Genero" Lockdown
Knight, Brian G.; Ponce de Leon, Maria Mercedes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Bogota Colombia during the pandemic. Under the policy, men were allowed out on odd days and women on even days, and we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510564
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....
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Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Medina, Carlos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...
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