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Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports

Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2016

This paper analyzes how the formation of Global Value Chains (GVCs) has affected the exchange rate elasticity of exports. Using a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, we first find some suggestive evidence that the elasticity of real manufacturing exports to the Real...

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Quality Upgrading and Export Performance in the Asian Growth Miracle

Papageorgiou, Chris - 2020

We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies … changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows … for changes in product quality, and calibrate it to generate predictions about export volumes. Unlike previous literature …

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What Happened to Asian Exports During the Crisis?

Duttagupta, Rupa - 2021

After the large exchange rate depreciations following the 1997 East Asian crisis, export volumes from East Asian …

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The Trade Impact of China on EMU : is it Even Across Members?

Mikkelsen, Uffe - 2012

countries. Simulations on the impact of productivity shocks in Chinese textiles and machinery suggest that the required …

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The Role of Newly Industrialized Economies in Global Value Chains

Boddin, Dominik - 2016

striking. Export shares measured by both methods differed by more than 20 percent for some industries. These findings highlight …

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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is it Justified?

Amiti, Mary - 2011

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...

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Fragmentation in Global Trade : Accounting for Commodities

Bolhuis, Marijn; Chen, Jiaqian; Kett, Benjamin - 2023

We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade fragmentation scenarios in a new multi-country, multi-sector,...

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The Quality of the Recent High-Growth Episode in Sub-Saharan Africa

Martinez, Marcelo - 2013

The paper explores the quality of the recent high-growth episode in sub-Saharan Africa by examining the following two questions: (i) what has been the nature and pattern of SSA growth over the past 15 years and how does it compare with previous episodes? (ii) has this growth had an impact on...

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Benchmarking Banking Sector Efficiency Across Regional Blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa : What Room for Policy?

Boutin-Dufresne, Francois - 2013

This paper examines the determinants of net interest margins in four regional blocks in Sub-Saharan Africa and one comparator block in the Eastern Caribbean. Using bank-level data, we find that countries with a high level of operating costs, a high ratio of equity to total assets and high...

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Income and Democracy : Lipset's Law Revisited

Hoeffler, Anke - 2013

We revisit Lipset's law, which posits a positive and significant relationship between income and democracy. Using dynamic and heterogeneous panel data estimation techniques, we find a significant and negative relationship between income and democracy: higher/lower incomes per capita...

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