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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117356
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902445
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The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2015
This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009768
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Quality and the Great Trade Collapse
Chen, Natalie - 2015
We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010482
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Why are Firms that Export Cleaner? International Trade and CO2 Emissions
Forslid, Rikard - 2014
This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052025
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Cultural Integration and Export Variety Overlap Across Countries
Egger, Peter H. - 2014
This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052069
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Export or Merge? Proximity vs. Concentration in Product Space
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014
This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060458
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Income Inequality and Export Prices Across Countries
Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - 2021
export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution … countries’ first and second moment of the income distribution are important determinants of export prices. Controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315750
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The Pungent Smell of 'Red Herrings' : Subsoil Assets, Rents, Volatility and the Resource Curse
van der Ploeg, Rick; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021
exports are no longer significant while the value of subsoil assets has a significant positive effect on growth. But the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316217
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Gotcha! A Profile of Smuggling in International Trade
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2021
interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … the world's five largest importers for the period from 2002-2006, we find that the reporting gaps are highly correlated …
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