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Measuring the effectiveness of cost and price competitiveness in external rebalancing of euro area countries: What do alternative HCIs tell us?
Christodoulopoulou, Styliani; Tkacevs, Olegs - 2014
This study examines the marginal effects of traditional determinants of exports and imports with a focus on the role of … harmonised competitiveness indicators (HCIs) on both exports and imports of both goods and services across individual euro area … of services are also found more sensitive to competitiveness indicators based on broader price measures. Imports of goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605781
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The Role of Price and Cost Competitiveness for Intra- and Extra-Euro Area Trade of Euro Area Countries
Bobeica, Elena - 2016
to be more sensitive to relative prices than imports. We consider various measures of competitiveness and conclude that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984573
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Cost and Price Competitiveness in External Rebalancing of Euro Area Countries : What Do Alternative HCIs Tell Us?
Christodoulopoulou, Styliani - 2014
This study examines the marginal effects of traditional determinants of exports and imports with a focus on the role of … harmonised competitiveness indicators (HCIs) on both exports and imports of both goods and services across individual euro area … of services are also found more sensitive to competitiveness indicators based on broader price measures. Imports of goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047096
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The Impact of Us Tariffs Against China on Us Imports : Evidence for Trade Diversion?
Cigna, Simone; Meinen, Philipp; Schulte, Patrick; … - 2021
on a data set covering monthly product-level information on US imports from 30 countries for the period January 2016 … showing a strong negative direct effect of US tariffs on US imports from China, but (2) do not find evidence for significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314797
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Imports and profitability in the euro area manufacturing sector: the role of emerging market economies
Peltonen, Tuomas A.; Skala, Martin; Santos Rivera, Alvaro; … - 2008
manufacturing sector, especially for imports coming from China and Russia. However, similar negative effects are also estimated for … imports from the United States. In contrast, imports from Latin America are estimated to be positively correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604964
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Tax thy neighbour: Corporate tax pass-through into downstream consumer prices in a monetary union
Dedola, Luca; Osbat, Chiara; Reinelt, Timo - 2022
We estimate the response of product-level retail prices to changes in the corporate tax rates paid by wholesale producers (pass-through). Under perfect competition in goods and factor markets, pass-through of corporate taxes should be zero, and their incidence mainly falls on factor prices. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368011
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Imports and Profitability in the Euro Area Manufacturing Sector : The Role of Emerging Market Economies
Peltonen, Tuomas A. - 2008
manufacturing sector, especially for imports coming from China and Russia. However, similar negative effects are also estimated for … imports from the United States. In contrast, imports from Latin America are estimated to be positively correlated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771395
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Tax Thy Neighbour : Corporate Tax Pass-Through into Downstream Consumer Prices in a Monetary Union
Dedola, Luca; Osbat, Chiara; Reinelt, Timo - 2022
We estimate the response of product-level retail prices to changes in the corporate tax rates paid by wholesale producers (pass-through). Under perfect competition in goods and factor markets, pass-through of corporate taxes should be zero, and their incidence mainly falls on factor prices. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080686
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Is China climbing up the quality ladder? Estimating cross country differences in product quality using Eurostat's COMEXT trade database
Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011
There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605356
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Non-price competitiveness of exports from emerging countries
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Wörz, Julia - 2013
Building on the methodology pioneered by Feenstra (1994) and Broda and Weinstein (2006), we construct an export price index that adjusts for changes in the set of competitors (variety) and changes in non-price factors (quality in a broad sense) for nine emerging economies (Argentina, Brazil,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605657