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Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms
Héricourt, Jérôme; Poncet, Sandra - 2013
This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more than 100,000 Chinese exporters over the 2000-2006 period....
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A reappraisal of the border effect on relative price volatility
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon-Sun - 2006
Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and that exchange rate fluctuations explain about one-third of the volatility increase. In re-evaluating the border effect, this study shows that cross-country heterogeneity in price...
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Quality and the Great Trade Collapse
Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2015
. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher … quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but this trend reversed during the recession. Quantitatively, the effect is … large: up to nine percentage points difference in trade performance can be explained by the quality composition of exports …
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The Dominant Currency Financing Channel of External Adjustment
Casas, Camila; Meleshchuk, Sergii; Timmer, Yannick - 2023
to higher delinquencies and interest rates, while exports are unaffected. Natural and financial hedging successfully mute … switching channel. Pricing exports in the dominant vs. producer currency mutes the effect of DCF on trade. …
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Vehicle Currency Pricing and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Chen, Natalie; Chung, Wanyu; Novy, Dennis - 2019
Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter’s currency. We then study the relationship between invoicing currency choices...
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Vehicle Currency Pricing and Exchange Rate Pass-Through
Chen, Natalie - 2019
Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter’s currency. We then study the relationship between invoicing currency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867016
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Business cycles, international trade and capital flows: Evidence from Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2012
This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. The result indicate that within...
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Oil Price Fluctuations and Exchange Rate Dynamics in the MENA Region: Evidence from Non-Causality-in- Variance and Asymmetric Non-Causality Tests
Nouira, Ridha; Hadj Amor, Thouraya; Rault, Christophe - 2018
The aim of this paper is to investigate the exchange rate consequences of oil-price fluctuations and to test for the dynamics of oil price volatility by examining interactions between oil market and exchange rate in selected MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia,...
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The trade and FDI effects of EMU enlargement
Brouwer, Jelle; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2007
This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the ten countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a dataset of unbalanced...
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The Globalisation of Inflation: The Growing Importance of Global Value Chains
Auer, Raphael A.; Borio, Claudio; Filardo, Andrew - 2017
Greater international economic interconnectedness over recent decades has been changing inflation dynamics. This paper presents evidence that the expansion of global value chains (GVCs), ie cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services, is an important channel through which global...
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