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Effective trade costs and the current account : an empirical analysis
Boz, Emine; Li, Nan; Zhang, Hongrui - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001519
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Armington Elasticities in Intermediate Inputs Trade : A Problem in Using Multilateral Trade Data
Saito, Mika - 2004
This paper finds that the estimates of Armington elasticities (the elasticity of substitution between groups of products identified by country of origin) obtained from multilateral trade data can differ from those obtained from bilateral trade data. In particular, the former tends to be higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404121
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Current account rebalancing and real exchange rate adjustment between the U.S. and emerging Asia
Méjean, Isabelle; Rabanal, Pau; Sandri, Damiano - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487129
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Current Account Rebalancing and Real Exchange Rate Adjustment Between the U.S. and Emerging Asia
Sandri, Damiano - 2011
A reduction in the U.S. current account deficit vis-à-vis emerging Asia involves a shift in demand from U.S. to … emerging Asia tradable goods and a change in international relative prices. This paper quantifies the required adjustment in … Asia. We compare scenarios where both Chinese and other emerging Asian export prices change by the same proportion to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779741
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Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs, and Productivity : Evidence From Indonesia
Amiti, Mary - 2005
This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to lower tariffs on intermediate inputs. Lower output tariffs can produce productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400616
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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Trade Policy
Giordani, Paolo - 2014
prediction of the theory with a new dataset that comprises monthly information on trade measures across 77 countries and 33 food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411694
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Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia : the gravity model
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2020
gravity model to analyze remittance flows in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries. Standard gravity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299334
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Export spillovers from global shocks for the Middle East and Central Asia
Behar, Alberto; Espinosa-Bowen, Jaime - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388711
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Banking across borders : are Chinese banks different?
Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Koch, Cathérine; Pradhan, Swapan-Kumar - 2020
We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks have become the largest cross-border creditors for almost half of all emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Their global reach resembles that of banks from advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392600
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Trade and income in the long run : are there really gains, and are they widely shared?
Cerdeiro, Diego A.; Komaromi, Andras - 2017
In the cross section of countries, there is a strong positive correlation between trade and income, and a negative relationship between trade and inequality. Does this reflect a causal relationship? We adopt the Frankel and Romer (1999) identification strategy, and exploit countries' exogenous...
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