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Income Inequality and Export Prices Across Countries

Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - 2021

This paper provides first firm-level evidence of the links between income inequality and the patterns of trade and export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution leads to higher average prices. We test the theory...

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The Impact of Trade Agreements on World Export Prices

Flach, Lisandra - 2018

This paper uncovers new stylized facts on the relation between economic integration and world trade prices. Using export price data combined with data on 32 WTO (World Trade Organization) accessions by developing countries and hundreds of new PTAs (Preferential Trade Agreements), we show that a...

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Conditional Volatility and Correlations of Weekly Returns and the VaR Analysis of 2008 Stock Market Crash

Pesaran, Bahram - 2013

Modelling of conditional volatilities and correlations across asset returns is an integral part of portfolio decision making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations across markets, a trend which has been accentuated...

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Global and Regional Spillovers in Emerging Stock Markets : A Multivariate Garch-in-Mean Analysis

Beirne, John - 2013

This paper examines global (mature market) and regional (emerging market) spillovers in local emerging stock markets. Tri-variate VAR GARCH(1,1)-in-mean models are estimated for 41 emerging market economies (EMEs) in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The models capture a range of...

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Self-Fulfilling Crises in the Eurozone : An Empirical Test

De Grauwe, Paul - 2013

We test the hypothesis that the government bond markets in the Eurozone are more fragile and more susceptible to self … countries in the Eurozone during 2010-11 was disconnected from underlying increases in the debt to GDP ratios and fiscal space … argue that this can drive member countries of the Eurozone into bad equilibria. We also find evidence that after years of …

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Exploring the International Linkages of the Euro Area : A Global VAR Analysis

Dees, Stephane - 2006

This paper presents a global model linking individual country vector error-correcting models in which the domestic variables are related to the country-specific variables as an approximate solution to a global common factor model. This global VAR is estimated for 26 countries, the euro area...

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Fiscal Rules, Financial Stability and Optimal Currency Areas

De Grauwe, Paul - 2015

In this paper we suggest that Eurozone countries face a policy trade-off among: 1) a common rule imposing co … conclude that the intense fiscal rules that have been introduced in the Eurozone after the emergence of the debt crisis reduced …

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International Income Inequality : Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food

Almås, Ingvild - 2010

Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer a country, the more its...

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The Real Exchange Rate in the Long Run : Balassa-Samuelson Effects Reconsidered

Bordo, Michael D. - 2014

Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample period. Although the traditional Balassa-Samuelson...

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China's Current Account and Exchange Rate

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013

We examine whether the Chinese exchange rate is misaligned and how Chinese trade flows respond to the exchange rate and to economic activity. We find, first, that the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB), is substantially below the value predicted by estimates based upon a cross-country sample,...

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