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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 … of confidence during the recent sovereign debt crisis has entailed higher sensitivity of import prices to exchange rate … beyond this threshold level, the sensitivity of import prices becomes higher and reaches full ERPT. Our findings raise 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, imports and wages : evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009
The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931298
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Exports, imports and firm survival : first evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379657
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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor
Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480812
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Spatial and temporal diffusion of house prices in the UK
Holly, Sean; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yamagata, Takashi - 2010
This paper provides a method for the analysis of the spatial and temporal diffusion of shocks in a dynamic system. We use changes in real house prices within the UK economy at the level of regions to illustrate its use. Adjustment to shocks involves both a region specific and a spatial effect....
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The role of "skill enhancing trade" in Brazil : some evidence from microdata
Araújo, Bruno César Pino Oliveira de; Bogliacino, … - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, the relative demand for skilled labour has increased substantially. To investigate whether these...
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Productivity and size of the export market : evidence for West and East German plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539184
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The microstructure of the great export collapse in German manufacturing industries, 2008/2009
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper uses comprehensive high-quality panel data from official statistics for exporting enterprises to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533357
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Trade and manufacturing jobs in Germany
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2017
import-competing than in export-oriented branches. We first document the individual-level job transitions behind those trends …
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