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The Pass-Through of Exchange Rate in the Context of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2015
This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five … of confidence during the recent sovereign debt crisis has entailed higher sensitivity of import prices to exchange rate … beyond this threshold level, the sensitivity of import prices becomes higher and reaches full ERPT. Our findings raise the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012797
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2019
.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861314
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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120841
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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms : Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2021
-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324761
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2021
Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of … to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314978
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Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries : What can we Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?
Drine, Imed; Rault, Christophe - 2021
The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004) and generalized by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2006) to examine the robustness of the PPP concept for a sample of 80 developed and developing countries. We find that strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316947
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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981519
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957505
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The Economic Consequences of Family Policies : Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries
Olivetti, Claudia - 2017
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964496
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Student Scores in Public and Private Schools : Evidence from PISA 2009
Mahuteau, Stephane - 2014
This paper examines critically the presumption that, other things equal, private schooling offers higher quality education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046262