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sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …
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In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al …
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GDP indicate non-oil export volumes are relatively responsive while service exports are less responsive. Downward … Europe and emerging markets presents further downside risks for exports. The Maghreb countries are particularly sensitive to …
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, first, dynamics for private consumption, non-residential business investment, and exports since 2008 is dominated by …
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, particularly on exports. We then go on to 'augment' the standard gravity model with relevant variables from the World Bank …
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This paper investigates whether banking crises are associated with declines in bilateral exports. We first develop a … simple open economy model in which banking crises translate into negative liquidity shocks, leading to collapses in exports … countries over the period 1988-2010. The results suggest that crisis-hit countries experience lower levels of bilateral exports …
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This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. Our model shows that the elasticity of demand perceived by exporters decreases with a real depreciation and with quality, leading to more...
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The paper examines the determinants of employment growth, drawing on data available across a sample of Caribbean countries. To that end, the paper analyzes estimates of the employment-output elasticity and the response of employment growth to major sources of labor market determinants, in the...
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This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of products over 1962–2010. Quality upgrading is particularly rapid during the early stages of development, with quality convergence largely completed as a country reaches upper...
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transformation of output and exports, as well as indicators of their quality and sophistication. The move from agriculture to a wide …
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