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Management of the external value of the renminbi

Oksanen, Heikki - 2015 - This version: 16 April 2015

Pegging the renminbi (RMB) to the US dollar since 1994 has characterised China’s exchange rate policy, under either a …

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Vehicle currency pricing and exchange rate pass-through

Chen, Natalie; Chung, Wanyu; Novy, Dennis - 2019

Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive, with more than half of transactions in our sample invoiced in neither sterling nor the exporter's currency. We then study the relationship between invoicing currency choices and...

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The financial channel of the exchange rate and global trade

Ma, Sai; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2023

This paper provides evidence that the U.S. dollar affects countries' exports through the financial channel of the … exchange rate (Bruno and Shin (2015)). Using global data on trade between countries whose currency is not the U.S. dollar, it … documents a positive relationship between the dollar and import prices. Importantly, this effect is stronger when the dollar …

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The dollar channel of monetary policy transmission

Meisenzahl, Ralf R.; Niepmann, Friederike; … - 2025

This paper documents a new dollar channel that transmits monetary policy across borders. Exploiting unique features of … the syndicated loan market for identification, we show that changes in the euro-dollar exchange rate around ECB monetary ….S. leveraged loan spreads. Specifically, in response to dollar appreciation, investors require higher compensation for risk, and …

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The US-China trade war and the relocation of global value chains to Mexico

Utar, Hâle; Zurita, Alfonso Cebreros; Torres Ruiz, … - 2023

Did the 2018/19 US-China trade war trigger adjustment of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and nearshoring to Mexico? We address this question with confidential longitudinal firm-level trade data from Mexico that covers the universe of international trade transactions over 2015-2021. By merging the...

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Does conditionality work? : a test for an innovative US aid scheme

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2011

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform promises of recipient countries. However, hardly any empirical evidence exists on whether ex post rewards are effective in inducing reforms. We attempt...

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Thin capitalization rules and multinational firm capital structure

Blouin, Jennifer L.; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2014

This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...

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Institutions and offshoring decision

Nicolini, Marcella (contributor) - 2007

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Horizontal versus vertical interdependence in multinational activity

Badinger, Harald (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2008

Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...

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The tax burden on cross-border investment : company strategies and country responses

Grubert, Harry - 2003

We look at the tax burden on direct investment from three perspectives. The first section illustrates how the recognition of company tax planning and of the importance of intellectual property affects measures of effective tax rates. It also discusses the methodological issues that arise, such...

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