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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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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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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...
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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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Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization : Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization
Jaworski, Taylor - 2020
We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … experienced faster growth. Consistent with the literature on economic development in Canada, we find that scale economies … controlling for these factors, we find that greater exposure to globalization shaped the pattern of regional industrialization in …
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Growing Up to Stability? Financial Globalization, Financial Development and Financial Crises
Bordo, Michael D. - 2015
kinds of financial crises for four countries (Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States) over the long-run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457380
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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions
Nashashibi, Karim - 1974
In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479072
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Monetary Policy in an Era of Global Supply Chains
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2020
We study the implications of global supply chains for the design of monetary policy, using a small-open economy New Keynesian model with multiple stages of production. Within the family of simple monetary policy rules with commitment, a rule that targets separate producer price inflation at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479127
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Might Global Uncertainty Promote International Trade?
Baley, Isaac - 2019
Common wisdom dictates that uncertainty impedes trade--we show that uncertainty can fuel more trade in a simple general equilibrium trade model with information frictions. In equilibrium, increases in uncertainty increase both the mean and the variance in returns to exporting implying that trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479559