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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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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 paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …
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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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This study concentrates on the signal approach for Kazakhstan. It focuses on the properties of individual indicators …
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We explore how outcomes of trade policy retaliation (Nash tariff games) are affected when trade simultaneously takes places geographically across countries and through time via financial intermediation. In such models deficits and surpluses in goods trade are endogenously determined, and...
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.g. most favored nation tariffs) and on the exporter side (e.g. export subsidies), even in the presence of exporter and … importer fixed effects. An important byproduct of our approach is that it can be used to recover estimates of the export … "Time to Export" as representative determinants of trade on the importer and on the exporter side, respectively. Our methods …
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This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two contributions. One is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between political institutions and economic efficiency by studying the endogenous interaction between the form...
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