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The pass-through of exchange rate in the context of the European sovereign debt crisis

Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Rault, Christophe - 2015

This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five heavily indebted Euro area countries, namely the so-called GIIPS group (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). Using logistic smooth transition models, we explore the...

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On price-setting for identical products in markets without formal trade barriers

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2001

This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers. We use data from IKEA, a furniture company selling identical products in an identical shopping environment in different EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law...

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Exports and wages : rent sharing, workforce composition or returns to skills?

Macis, Mario; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2012

devaluation increased the demand for skills more useful for exporting, driving their relative price up. -- export wage premium … strategy exploits the 1992 devaluation of the Italian Lira, which represented a large and unforeseen shock to Italian firms …' incentives to export. The results indicate that the export wage premium is due to exporting firms both (1) paying a wage premium …

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Would a Euro's depreciation improve the French economy?

Magnani, Riccardo; Piccoli, Luca; Carré, Martine; … - 2017

In this paper, we use a Micro-Macro model to evaluate the effects of a euro's depreciation on the French economy, both at the macro and micro level. Our Micro-Macro model consists of a Microsimulation model that includes an arithmetical model for the French fiscal system and two behavioral...

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Is demand-pulled innovation equally important in different groups of firms?

Piva, Mariacristina (contributor); … - 2006

Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and found that overall, evidence does not conflict with the idea that innovation may be driven by output. Using a balanced panel of 216 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, and...

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Estimating production functions in differentiated-product industries with quantity information and external instruments

Roux, Nicolás de; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2020

relatively well in predicting future export growth. …

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Trade, quality upgrading and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector

Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2007

heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the most productive plants in a country like Mexico enter the export … motivate a high-quality workforce. An exchange-rate devaluation leads initially more-productive, higher-wage plants to increase … more-productive plants increased the export share of sales, white-collar wages, blue-collar wages, the relative wage of …

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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018

rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …

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Gains from trade and the food Engel curve

Farrokhi, Farid; Jinkins, David; Chong, Xiang - 2022

with observed household consumption decisions. Our approach is based on inference from household-level estimation of food …

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Employment, exchange rates and labour market rigidity

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010

There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of labour adjustment costs in a trade model affects the impact of exchange rate movements on...

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