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An empirical investigation into exchange rate regime choice and exchange rate volatility

Berger, Helge; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2000

We test a simple model of exchange rate regime choice with data for 65 non-OECD countries covering the period 1980-94.We find that the variance of output at home and in potential target c ountries as well as the correlation between home and foreign real activity are powerful and robust...

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Offshoring and volatility of demand

Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm; Yalçin, Erdal - 2016

In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume complete contracts. Firms are heterogeneous as in Melitz...

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …

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Capital controls and exchange rate regimes : an empirical investigation

Berger, Helge; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2001

It is often argued that deregulation of international transactions and its effects on the globalization of financial markets is behind the decline in the attractiveness of fixed exchange rate regimes. We argue that, instead, much of the recently observed decrease in the level of capital controls...

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Does the impact of financial liberalization on income inequality depend on financial development? : some new evidence

Haan, Jakob de; Pleninger, Regina; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 5, pp. 313-316

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WTO membership and the extensive margin of world trade : new evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2009

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Testing uncovered interest rate parity using LIBOR

Omer, Muhammad; Haan, Jakob de; Scholtens, Bert - 2012

We test Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) using LIBOR interest rates for a wide range of maturities. In contrast to other markets, LIBOR markets have minimal frictions which could lead to rejecting UIP. Using panel unit root test suggested by Palm, Smeekes, and Urbain (2010) and cointegration...

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Does WTO membership make a difference at the extensive margin of world trade?

Felbermayr, Gabriel (contributor); … - 2007

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Political regime change, economic reform and growth accelerations

Jong-A-Pin, Richard (contributor); … - 2007

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Does high inflation cause central bankers to lose their job? : evidence based on a new data set

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2007

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