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and the second year of export is biased upwards because new exporters may start exporting late during the year. This … incomplete calendar year reduces export revenue by 32% on average for the first year of export. We then show that, controlling … for size, export experience is negatively related to net growth of exports for surviving exporters. Controlling for export …
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Using a French firm-level database that combines balance-sheet and product-destination-specific export information over …
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firms, matching together export data with firm-level credit constraints, shows that most of the 2008-2009 trade collapse is …
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export prices. Larger, and more productive firms, are more likely to differentiate prices across markets. Primary sector …
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The unprecedented drop in international trade during the last quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 has mainly been analysed at the macroeconomic or sectoral level. However, exporters who are heterogeneous in terms of productivity, size or external financial dependence should be...
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We use a joint model of macroeconomic and term structure dynamics to estimate inflation risk premia in the United States and the euro area. To sharpen our estimation, we include in the information set macro data and survey data on inflation and interest rate expectations at various future...
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As the global banking crisis intensified in the fall of 2008, governments announced comprehensive rescue packages for financial institutions. In this paper, we put the joint response of euro area bank and sovereign CDS premia under the microscope. We find that the bank rescue packages led to a...
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We introduce a specification of habit formation featuring non-separability between consumption and leisure into an otherwise standard New Keynesian model. The model can be estimated with standard Bayesian techniques and the bond pricing implications are evaluated using higher-order...
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A large empirical literature suggests that risk premia on stocks or corporate bonds are large and countercyclical. This paper studies a simple real business cycle model with a small, exogenously time-varying risk of disaster, and shows that it can replicate several important facts documented in...
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This paper quantifies liquidity and credit premia in German and French government bond yields. For this purpose, we estimate term structures of government-guaranteed agency bonds and exploit the fact that any difference in their yields vis-`a-vis government bonds can be attributed to differences...
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