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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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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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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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sectors, we deduce the overall inflation generated by direct and indirect requirements for the total economy. For example, an … increase in oil prices by 75% generates a global inflation cost between 5.5% and 8%. Symmetric scenarios indicate no strong … asymmetrical effects. The generated inflation may alter the stable path of inflation recorded over the past fifteen years putting …
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likelihood of a variety of crises—banking, currency, external default and inflation. For Latin America, in particular, large … capital flow bonanzas have seldom ended well. The implications for inflation of importing (via less than fully flexible …
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Overall inflation in Bangladesh saw a surge in inflation rate amid rising trend of global commodity prices in the last … few years. Inflation in 2009 was 6.66 percent and 7.31 percent in 2010. As higher inflation might have detrimental impact … on different sectors, this study aims to assess the impact of inflation on the performance of the financial sector in …
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neighborhood and unobserved heterogeneity of countries of the region to analyze the effects of Policy mix on inflation, the output … mechanism of propagation of shocks affecting the level of inflation and a mecanisme for output stabilization. …
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This paper analyzes the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into consumer prices for 12 EA countries within a CVAR framework. Using the Johansen cointegration procedure, results indicate the existence of one cointegrating vectors at least for each EA country of our sample. When measuring the...
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