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trade might be called the ""missing globalization puzzle."" This puzzle is most apparent in the estimated distance … evidence of globalization, on both cross-section and panel data, reflected in a variety of measures of geography. Our …
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continue to power export growth? This paper places in international context the achievements of the CEE-8 and helps more … broadly to identify the determinants of international competitiveness. Building from data at the six-digit level of … analysis strongly suggests that, when trading in international markets, countries benefit from higher product quality. However …
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has been limited because of concerns over its effects on economic growth, income distribution, and international … the worry about the loss of competitiveness, the paper suggests an international agreement on a coordinated adoption of …
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, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments …
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This paper discusses five indicators of competitiveness: real exchange rates based on consumer price indices, export unit values of manufacturing goods, the relative price of traded to nontraded goods, normalized unit labor costs in manufacturing, and the ratio of normalized unit labor costs to...
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This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy''s cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures inspired by the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for estimated real effective exchange rates, but differ from standard measures in...
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This paper examines the effect of international trade on corporate market power in emerging market economies and … data by sector and agreggate indicators of international trade for the period 2000-17. Greater trade liberalization and …
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We examine the gains from globalization in the presence of firm heterogeneity and potential resource misallocation. We …
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A view receiving increased support is that the height of trade costs in prime export sectors has a strong effect on current account balances: countries specializing in sectors that face relatively high trade costs, such as services, tend to run current account deficits, and similarly, countries...
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This paper develops a new empirical framework for analyzing the dynamics of the trade balance in response to different types of macroeconomic shocks. The model provides a synthetic perspective on the conditional correlations between the business cycle and the trade balance that are generated by...
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