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How money relates to value? : an empirical examination on gold, silver and bitcoin
Alves, José; Gonçalves, João Quental - 2022
our problem allowing us to ask how old forms of money such as Gold and Silver hold up in today's world regarding their …. We analyse price dynamics from 1980 to 2020 for gold and silver resorting to annual data. Regarding bitcoin we employ …
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The network origins of the gains from trade
Bosker, Maarten; Westbrock, Bastian - 2019
In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today's internationally fragmented supply chains. Towards this end, we study a Ricardian trade model featuring trade in final and intermediate products, and introduce a novel comparative statics approach to...
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CO2 embedded in trade : trends and fossil fuel drivers
Weber, Sylvain; Gerlagh, Reyer; Mathys, Nicole A.; … - 2019
The amount of CO2 embedded in trade has substantially increased over the last decades. We study the trends and some drivers of the carbon content of trade over the period 1995-2009. Our main findings are the following. First, the mix of traded goods tends to have higher emission intensity than...
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Macroeconomic effects of disruptions in global food commodity markets : evidence for the United States
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2016
commodity price shocks. Both approaches deliver similar conclusions. Specifically, an unfavorable food commodity market shock …
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Closer look at revealed comparative advantage : gross-versus value added trade flows
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - This version: April 2015
With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
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Oil trade and climate policy : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, October 2014
Curuk, Malik; Sen, Suphi - 2015
It has been argued that a depletable resource owner might optimally increase near-term supply in response to environmental policies promoting the development of alternative resources, which might render climate policy ineffective or even counterproductive. This paper empirically confirms this...
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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
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Market potential and global growth over the long twentieth century
Jacks, David S.; Novy, Dennis - 2018
market potential exhibits an upward trend across all regions of the world from the early 1930s and that this trend …We examine the evolution of market potential and its role in driving economic growth over the long twentieth century …. Theoretically, we exploit a structural gravity model to derive a closed-form solution for a widely-used measure of market potential …
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Arming in the global economy : the importance of trade with enemies and friends
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019 - Current version: December 10, 2018
We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one's incentive to arm given the opponent's...
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World-trade growth accounting
Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey K. - 2016 - This draft: March 2016
We undertake a trade-growth accounting exercise by decomposing data on changes in bilateral international trade flows into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect components (general equilibrium effects). Furthermore,...
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