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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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Offshoring and volatility of demand

Benz, Sebastian; Kohler, Wilhelm; Yalçin, Erdal - 2016

In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume complete contracts. Firms are heterogeneous as in Melitz...

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …

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WTO membership and the extensive margin of world trade : new evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2009

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Does WTO membership make a difference at the extensive margin of world trade?

Felbermayr, Gabriel (contributor); … - 2007

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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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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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The effectiveness of the FX market interventions of the Bundesbank during the Louvre period : an options-based analysis

Pierdzioch, Christian - 2000

The effectiveness of the foreign exchange market interventions conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank during the Louvre period to alter either the level or the volatility of the $/DM spot rate is examined. Volatility quotes implicit in foreign currency options are employed to recover the impact of...

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Keeping up with the Joneses : implications for the welfare effects of monetary policy in open economies

Pierdzioch, Christian (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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On the welfare effects of monetary policy when households try to keep up with the rest of the world

Pierdzioch, Christian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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