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destinations makes the firm more likely to export occasionally to some markets, thereby raising volatility. These results cast …
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To understand the effects of trade policy uncertainty on firm-level export decisions, we study firm-product data on … export activities across firms, largely due to extensive margin entries and exits. In addition we document accompanying … prices entered the U.S. export market, while firms that had higher prices and provided lower quality products exited …
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This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …
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We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
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This study concentrates on the signal approach for Kazakhstan. It focuses on the properties of individual indicators …
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-prudential indicators. The system will be tested using a case study referring to Kazakhstan. The main novelty of the study lies in designing … economic environment of Kazakhstan and in studying the interaction of these composite indicators. An additional innovation is …
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In this paper we explore the evidence that would establish that Dutch disease is at work in, or poses a threat to, the Kazakh economy. Assessing the mechanism by which fluctuations in the price of oil can damage non-oil manufacturing and thus long-term growth prospects in an economy that relies...
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's largest export market while Brazil's export share to the US has halved. The number of bilateral cooperation agreements between …
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Most evidence for the resource curse comes from cross-country growth regressions suffers from a bias originating from the high and ever-evolving volatility in commodity prices. This paper addresses these issues by providing new cross-country empirical evidence for the effect of resources in...
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. The instruments used include export taxes, price controls, production quotas, and domestic producer and consumer taxes …
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