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Do men and women behave differently while adjusting labor supply over the business cycle? Using data for the United States we show that women are signifi�cantly more likely to adjust along the intensive margin (number of hours), while men adjust more often along the extensive margin...
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The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of the Customs Union (CU) and Free Trade Agreements (FTA) on the extensive and intensive margins. For this purpose, first, Turkey’s export data set composing HS-6 digit product level statistics for period 1996 to 2011 with 172 countries has...
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This paper examines empirically the effects of the WTO and RTA membership on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade. Using disaggregated data for a sample of 177 countries, the main findings of this paper are that WTO membership tends to increase the number of products traded between...
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I investigate changes in the structure of trade of seventeen transition economies between 1996 and 2006, focusing on differences across three types of products -- homogeneous goods, reference priced goods, and differentiated products. I examine shares of exports of each type of good, intensive...
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Ethnic networks—as proxies for information networks—have been associated with higher levels of international trade. Previous research has not differentiated between the roles of these networks on the extensive and intensive margins. The present paper does so using a model with fixed effects,...
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to their increase, an unanticipated hike in policy rate has no impact on them. The impact on inflation is also symmetric … neutral to components of aggregate demand and, thus, on inflation, ranging from 6.25 per cent to 7.0 per cent. …
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This paper provides an empirical study of the asymmetrical spillovers of the euro-US dollar exchange rate on inflation … the only key factor, in determining the asymmetry in inflation between core and periphery. The nominal effective exchange … rate instead is a very important driver for the inflation only considering the whole euro zone. Therefore, the EMU seems to …
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the long run trade-off between unemployment and inflation in Egypt … analysis confirm a positive relationship between changes in inflation rate and unemployment gap in the long run, which is … consistent with “Locus Critique” where a policy of inflation would fail to reduce the unemployment rate in the long run, because …
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This paper investigates whether the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to CPI inflation is a nonlinear phenomenon for … confidence during the recent sovereign debt crisis has entailed a higher sensibility of CPI inflation to exchange rate movements. …
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oil lead to domestic inflation in the United Kingdom has had validity. In a model where real GDP growth and money stock … particular, the greater the percentage increase in imported crude oil prices, the greater the domestic inflation rate. In … domestic inflation rate. …
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