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Costly revenue-raising and the case for favoring import-competing industries
Matschke, Xenia (contributor) - 2005
A standard finding in the political economy of trade policy literature is that we should expect export-oriented industries to attract more assistance than import-competing industries. In reality, however, trade policy is heavily biased toward supporting import industries. This paper shows within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003112687
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Gravity redux : measuring international trade costs with panel data
Novy, Dennis - 2011
Barriers to international trade are known to be large but due to data limitations it is hard to measure them directly for a large number of countries over many years. To address this problem I derive a micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs that indirectly infers trade frictions from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009349934
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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis
Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008
countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730274
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Terms of trade, catch-up, and home market effect : the example of Japan
Urban, Dieter M. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624594
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The signalling channel of central bank interventions : modelling the yen
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Glanemann, Nicole - 2011
the yen/US dollar dynamics. -- exchange rates ; interventions ; Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312174
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659
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Ageing and the tax implied in public pension schemes : simulations for selected OECD countries
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514127
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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model with three distinct social groups, capitalists, private workers and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the public sector in most EU countries, the paper looks for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477149
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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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Regional heterogeneity, the rise of public debt and monetary policy in post-bubbles Japan : lessons for the EMU
Fischer, Raphael; Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
Both Japan and parts of the European Monetary Union have experienced boom and bust in stock and real estate markets … public debt and monetary policy in the context of crisis. It is shown for Japan that the attempts to maintain regional … expansion. Econometric estimations show that in Japan regional redistribution of funds has ensured homogeneous living conditions …
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