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We examine the gains from globalization in the presence of firm heterogeneity and potential resource misallocation. We show theoretically that without distortions, bilateral and export liberalizations increase aggregate welfare and productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects....
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This paper uses panel data for 19 OECD countries and finds support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the United States helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...
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elasticities have increased as a result of structural changes in the economy. It finds that the high income elasticity of imports … and the responsiveness of exports to changes in world commodity prices, domestic absorption, and economic activity in …
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Over the past 20 years, the Chinese authorities have undertaken wide-ranging reforms of their exchange and trade systems that have steadily reduced the role of planning and increased the importance of market forces. As these reforms have taken root, relative prices and domestic and foreign...
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The World Economic Outlook (WEO) is a key source of forecasts of global economic conditions. It is therefore important to review the performance of these forecasts against both actual outcomes and alternative forecasts. This paper conducts a series of statistical tests to evaluate the quality of...
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would also facilitate a reduction in inflation, which would moderate gold imports and favorably impact real exchange rate …
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than 4 percent of net food imports over a period of six years for the countries considered, although for some of the larger …
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In this paper, the behavior of China’s imports during the period 1980-92 is studied. The estimation of cointegration … and error correction mechanisms enables the separation of the long-run and short-run determinants of imports in China. The … estimated cointegrating vector using Johansen’s cointegration approach shows that, in the long run, China’s imports are …
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Motivated by stylized facts pointing to a dominant role of imported inputs in transmitting external price shocks to domestic prices, this paper zooms in to study the pass-through of imported input costs to domestic producer prices. Our approach constructs effective input price indices from...
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