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The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms

Méjean, Isabelle - 2010

Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset...

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Barriers to Retail Competition and Prices : Evidence from Spain

Hoffmaister, Alexander W - 2006

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Environmental Tax Reform : Principles from Theory and Practice to Date

Parry, Ian W.H - 2012

energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy … Reforms: The Case of Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam -- A. Comparing Energy Systems in Sweden, Germany, Turkey, and … Vietnam -- B. Externality Assessment -- C. Evaluating Environmental Tax Systems -- D. Conclusion -- Figures -- 1. Revenues …

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Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching

Badia, Marialuz Moreno; Slootmaekers, Veerle; Beveren, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm dynamics, considering both firm closedown and product switching. We contribute to the literature in two important ways: (1) this is the first paper to study the determinants of...

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Competitiveness in the Southern Euro Area; France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain

Lissovolik, Bogdan; Escolano, Julio; Fabrizio, Stefania; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This collection of studies analyzes developments in nonprice external competitiveness of France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. While France, Italy, and Portugal have experienced substantial export market share losses, Greece and Spain performed relatively well. Export market share losses...

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Emerging market business cycles : the role of labor market frictions

Boz, Emine; Durdu, Ceyhun Bora; Li, Nan - 2012

Emerging economies are characterized by higher consumption and real wage variability relative to output and a strongly countercyclical current account. A real business cycle model of a small open economy that embeds a Mortensen-Pissarides type of search-matching frictions and countercyclical...

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Monetization in low- and middle-income countries

McLoughlin, Cameron; Kinoshita, Noriaki - 2012

The degree of an economy's monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal GDP--...

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Riding global financial waves : the economic impact of global financial shocks on emerging market economies

Adler, Gustavo; Tovar, Camilo Ernesto - 2012

Over the past two decades, most emerging market economies witnessed two key developments. A marked process of financial integration with the rest of the world, arguably turning these economies more vulnerable to global financial shocks; and an improvement of macroeconomic fundamentals, helping...

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Emerging market sovereign bond spreads : estimation and back-testing

Comelli, Fabio - 2012

We estimate sovereign bond spreads of 28 emerging economies over the period January 1998-December 2011 and test the ability of the model in generating accurate in-sample predictions for emerging economies bond spreads. The impact and significance of country-specific and global explanatory...

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How much should I hold? : reserve adequacy in emerging markets and small islands

Mwase, Nkunde - 2012

This paper investigates the drivers of reserves in emerging markets (EMs) and small island (SIs) and develops an operational metric for estimating reserves in SIs taking into account their unique characteristics. It uses quantile regression techniques to allow the estimated factors driving...

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