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Freeze! : financial sanctions and bank responses

Efing, Matthias; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2018

We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach to analyze eleven sanctions episodes between 2002 and 2015, we find that banks located in Germany reduce their positions in countries with sanctioned entities by 38%. The...

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Productivity and the decision to import and export : theory and evidence

Kasahara, Hiroyuki (contributor); … - 2008

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Gotcha! : a profile of smuggling in international trade

Berger, Helge (contributor); Nitsch, Volker (contributor) - 2008

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the source country deviates from the reported import value...

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Global welfare implications of carbon border taxes

Gros, Daniel - 2009

This paper presents a simple, basic model to compute the welfare consequences of the introduction of a tariff on the CO2 content of imported goods in a country that already imposes a domestic carbon tax. The main finding is that the introduction of a carbon import tariff increases global welfare...

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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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Capacity investment under demand uncertainty : an empirical study of the US cement industry, 1994-2006

Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Thomas, Catherine - 2010

this sector have the ability to deliver cement either from domestic plants or from imports. Since cement is costly to … transport via land, the difference in marginal cost between local production and imports varies across local markets. The … marginal cost of imports is lower in areas with access to a sea port, decreasing the relative value of investing in local …

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Has the euro affected the choice of invoicing currency?

Ligthart, Jenny E.; Werner, Sebastian E. V. - 2010

currency and the country. We use unique quarterly panel data of Norwegian imports from OECD countries for the 1996-2006 period … role of the US dollar in Norwegian imports. The econometric analysis shows a significant effect of euro introduction above …

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Die another day : duration in German import trade

Nitsch, Volker (contributor) - 2007

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Substitutability and protectionism : Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India

Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri; … - 2007

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Capital importers pay more for their imports

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2012

imports of goods. Using data from 2000 to 2009 for 11 euro area countries we utilize a pricing-to-market specification to …,327 observations. We find a strong influence of the importing country's net capital inflows on the border prices of its imports of …

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