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The exceptional export performance of foreign-owned firms is a well-established stylized fact, but the underlying …
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We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …
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We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
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The classical Wage Fund (Capital or Credit) framework is integrated with the simplest text-book version of the Ricardian model of comparative advantage, generating a model that replicates important features of the neo-classical production theory involving capital and labour without neo-classical...
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countries, this paper introduces three new indicators for measuring uncertainty in Turkey's export markets from the first … quarter of 1996 to the first quarter of 2020. The indicators measure uncertainty in Turkey's export destinations. After … introducing three indicators of uncertainty for export markets, we investigate their effects on economic growth. We find that all …
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The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
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Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching...
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information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …
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product-level. We find that the most productive firms sell core varieties via foreign direct investment (FDI) and export … products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or …
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this theoretical and empirical puzzle by diagnosing a "pathological export boom" and a "bazaar effect". Excessively high … fraction of the labour intensive sectors and drive too much capital and labour into the capital intensive export sectors …, causing both unemployment and excessive value added in exports. Moreover, excessive wages induce too much outsourcing of …
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