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Consumer preferences and the reliability of Euler equation tests of capital mobility : some simulation-based evidence

Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

The globalization of international financial markets has renewed interest in the measurement of capital mobility. Consumption-based tests such as the Euler equation test are commonly used. These tests, however, are derived under restrictive assumptions on consumer behavior. In this paper, we ask...

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Where is the value added? : trade liberalization and production networks

Aichele, Rahel; Heiland, Inga - 2016

theory-based measures for production networks from a multi-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages to analyze the …, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … and for about 7% of the decline in this figure on the world level as observed between 2000 and 2007. Furthermore, our …

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Going deep : the trade and welfare effects of TTIP

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga - 2014

rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …

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Kyoto and carbon leakage : an empirical analysis of the carbon content of bilateral trade

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2011

Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...

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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014

America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …

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Exchange rate expectations redux and monetary policy

Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium optimizing two-country model to analyze how the formation of exchange rate expectations shapes the effects of monetary policy shocks in open economies. The model implies that the short-run output effects of permanent monetary policy shocks diminish...

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Capital mobility, consumption substitutability, and the effectiveness of monetary policy in open economies

Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium two-country optimizing model to analyze the consequences of international capital mobility for the effectiveness of monetary policy in open economies. The model shows that the substitutability of goods produced in different countries plays a central...

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Financial openness and business cycle volatility

Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

This paper discusses whether the integration of international financial markets affects business cycle fluctuations. In the framework of a new open economy macro-model, we show that the link between financial openness and business cycle volatility depends on the nature of the underlying shock....

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Financial market integration and business cycle volatility in a monetary union

Pierdzioch, Christian - 2002

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium two-country optimizing sticky-price model to analyze the consequences of international financial market integration for the propagation of asymmetric productivity shocks in a monetary union. The model implies that business cycle volatility is higher...

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Noise traders' trigger rates, FX options, and smiles

Pierdzioch, Christian - 2000

A contingent claims valuation model which allows to highlight the implications of program trading in spot markets for the pricing of European-style foreign currency options and for the volatility strike structure implicit in these contracts is devoloped. The curvature of the volatility strike...

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