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Domestic Banks as Lightning Rods? Home Bias and Information During the Eurozone Crisis

Saka, Orkun - 2019

European banks have been criticized for holding excessive domestic government debt during the recent Eurozone crisis, which may have intensified the diabolic loop between sovereign and bank credit risks. By using a novel bank-level dataset covering the entire timeline of the Eurozone crisis, I...

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Investors' Trading Behaviour and Stock Market Volatility During Crisis Periods : A Dual Long-Memory Model for the Korean Stock Exchange

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2020

This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis events, the Asian crisis of 1997 and the 2008 global financial crash. We investigate the trading behaviour of domestic vs. foreign and institutional vs. individual investors. Our...

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The crisis in the foreign exchange market

Melvin, Michael; Taylor, Mark P. - 2009

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 had major implications for the foreign exchange market. We review events and implications for exchange rates, volatility, returns to currency investing, and transaction costs. This blow-by-blow" narrative is intended to be a resource for researchers seeking a...

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Overlapping Climate Clubs Under Transaction Costs

Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2019

We examine the formation of multilateral, hub-and-spoke and bilateral international R&D strategic alliances (overlapping climate clubs) to reduce CO2 emissions. R&D provision in clubs produces two types of positive externalities: a global public good (i.e., reduction of CO2 emissions) and...

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Import Processing and Trade Costs

Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021

Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing...

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Entrepôt : Hubs, Scale, and Trade Costs

Ganapati, Sharat - 2020

Entrepôts are hubs that facilitate trade between various origins and destinations. We study the role these hubs, and the networks they form, play in international trade. Using novel data, we trace the paths of containerized goods entering the United States. We show that the majority of trade is...

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The Effects of Land Redistribution : Evidence from the French Revolution

Finley, Theresa; Franck, Raphaël; Johnson, Noel D. - 2021

This study exploits the confiscation and auctioning off of Church property that occurred during the French Revolution to assess the role played by transaction costs in delaying the reallocation of property rights in the aftermath of fundamental institutional reform. French districts with a...

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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters

Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021

Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...

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Unlocking New Methods to Estimate Country-Specific Trade Costs and Trade Elasticities

Freeman, Rebecca; Larch, Mario; Theodorakopoulos, Angelos; … - 2021

We propose new methods to identify the full impact of country-specific characteristics on bilateral trade flows within the framework of ‘the new quantitative trade model.’ We complement theory with a simple two-stage estimating procedure, and offer a proof of concept by quantifying the...

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Competition and waiting times in hospital markets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2007

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

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