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A factor augmentation formulation of the value of international trade
Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Brown, John Christopher - 2012
employments in 19th-century Japan permits us to apply this approach to answer the following counterfactual: What factor … 1865-1876? Over the entire period, we find that trade was revealed to be equivalent to a 5.5% increase in Japan's female …. -- gains from trade ; factor augmentation equivalent to trade ; natural experiment of Japan …
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Business cycles, international trade and capital flows : evidence from Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2012
American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683383
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Market structure and market access
Francois, Joseph F. (contributor); Wooton, Ian (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003647238
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Cross-country income differences and technology diffusion in a competitive world
Irmen, Andreas - 2008
This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805991
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China's current account and exchange rate
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Fujii, Eiji - 2009
We examine whether the Chinese exchange rate is misaligned and how Chinese trade flows respond to the exchange rate and to economic activity. We find, first, that the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB), is substantially below the value predicted by estimates based upon a cross-country sample,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818038
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International trade, factor mobility and the persistence of cultural-institutional diversity
Belloc, Marianna; Bowles, Samuel - 2009
Cultural and institutional differences among nations may result in differences in the ratios of marginal costs of goods in autarchy and thus be the basis of specialization and comparative advantage, as long as these differences are not eliminated by trade. We provide an evolutionary model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882529
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Internationally coordinated emission permit policies : an option for withdrawers from the Kyoto protocol?
Bednar-Friedl, Birgit; Farmer, Karl - 2009
This paper investigates the welfare costs of unilateral versus internationally coordinated emission permit policies in a two-country overlapping generations model with producer carbon emissions. We show that, for a net foreign debtor country, the domestic welfare costs of a unilateral domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882562
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Trade booms, trade busts, and trade costs
Jacks, David S.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Novy, Dennis - 2009
What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882603
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Unemployment in an interdependent world
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009
We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887183
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Is the international border effect larger than the domestic border effect? : evidence from U.S. trade
Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Novy, Dennis - 2009
Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders compare to domestic border barriers? We investigate international and domestic border barriers in a unified framework. We consider a unique data set of exports from individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902081