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Where You Export Matters : Measuring Uncertainty in Turkey's Export Markets
Fang, Jianchun - 2020
Using data from the World Uncertainty, World Trade Uncertainty, and World Pandemic Uncertainty indices for 142 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...
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The Dominant Currency Financing Channel of External Adjustment
Casas, Camila; Meleshchuk, Sergii; Timmer, Yannick - 2023
currency debt maturity structure around a large depreciation in Colombia, we show that debt revaluation compresses imports due … 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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Reproducing the Stylized Facts that Motivate Models of International Trade with Heterogeneous Firms Using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys
Riaño, Alejandro - 2023
This article shows how to use the publicy-available firm-level surveys produced by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) to reproduce the stylized facts that characterize firm heterogeneity and its relationship with global engagement, as established by Bernard et al. (2007) for manufacturing...
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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Firm-to-Firm Trade : Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S.; Kramarz, Francis - 2022
increase in French exports to the new members. While workers benefited overall, those competing most directly with imports … exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative …
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German Firms in International Trade : Evidence from Recent Microdata
Fauth, Matthias; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2023
In this paper, we zoom in on the firm level of German merchandise foreign trade, using a novel data base with information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the consolidated reporting of taxable entities and the...
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Naturally Negative: The Growth Effects of Natural Disasters
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2013
Growth theory predicts that natural disasters should, on impact, lower GDP per capita. However, the empirical literature does not offer conclusive evidence. Most existing studies use disaster data drawn from damage records of insurance companies. We argue that this may lead to estimation bias as...
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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Sustainability of an Economy Relying on Two Reproducible Assets
Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2017
Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an economy composed of two reproducible assets, each...
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Wealth Management and Uncertain Tipping Points
Strøm, Steinar; Vislie, Jon - 2019
We analyze optimal wealth management, within a global setting, where accumulation of GHGs caused by extraction of fossil resources affects the probability distribution for hitting a threshold or tipping point, indicating a climate change. We derive an optimal strategy for overall wealth...
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