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productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment … (FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity …
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A puzzle in international macroeconomics is that observed real exchange rates are highly volatile. Standard international real business cycle (IRBC) models cannot reproduce this fact. We show that TFP processes for the U.S. and the "rest of the world," is characterized by a vector error...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA -- III. ECONOMETRIC PRELIMINARIES -- IV. "INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS …" REVISITED -- V. INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: ALTERNATIVE SPECIFICATION …
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with substantial declines in partner GDP and firm revenue; (ii) negative spillovers are larger in countries and firms with … stronger trade links with China; and (iii) spillovers from Chinese supply shocks are stronger than spillovers from demand …
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leads to lower wage inequality for different skills, industries and population groups, but has not investigated its impact … productivity and unemployment differentials. …
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Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries … felt in all advanced economies. Reforms aimed at increasing productivity in services and reducing gaps in employment … protection and benefits between regular and nonregular workers could help put Japan's wages on an upward trajectory in the medium …
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Labor productivity levels in Bulgaria lag well behind that in the EU, weighing on the convergence process. Stronger … productivity growth would allow Bulgaria to close the income gap with the EU average more quickly and to alleviate the structural … productivity suggest that for Bulgaria closing the gap with EU standards in the areas of institutional and infrastructure quality …
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acknowledge and appreciate the spillovers resulting from such UMPs. Central banks of the AEs, who have set up standing mutual swap …
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debated in global and national policy circles. When the U.S. resorted to unconventional monetary policy, spillovers on asset …-term bond yields. Instead, we find that larger spillovers stem more from structural factors, such as the use of new instruments …
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This paper quantifies the effect of realized and potential global growth disappointments on export volumes from the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Estimates of export elasticities with respect to trading partner GDP indicate non-oil export volumes are relatively...
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