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trade flows. Econometric estimates of export and import equations provide evidence that trade flows have indeed become …
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direct measures of product variety calculated from 6-digit OECD export and import data. Although the issue is still far from …
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This paper presents new estimates of export and import equations for Argentina, using a broader set of variables than …
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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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This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to construct a CPI index for the poorest and richest...
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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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firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … firm, industry, and country factors that mitigate any negative impact of an import shock. In contrast to the results of … some well-known single-country studies, we find limited adverse impact of import competition. In some countries and …
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This paper extends earlier research by adding SWIFT data on documentary collections to the short-term forecast of international trade. While SWIFT documentary collections accounted for just over one percent of world trade financing in 2020, they have strong explanatory power to forecast world...
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