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The cost of EU trade protection in textiles and clothing

Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000

This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used …, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the …

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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity

Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009

During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....

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Expectations, monetary policy, and labor markets : lessons from the Great Depression

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2009

This paper estimates a series of shocks to hit the US economy during the Great Depression, using a New Keynesian model with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the cyclical behavior of employment, while an increase in...

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Sovereign bonds since Waterloo

Meyer, Josefin; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2021 - This draft: December2021

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in...

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Whole versus shared ownership of foreign affiliates

Raff, Horst (contributor); Ryan, Michael (contributor); … - 2008

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at … direct investment ; multinational enterprise ; joint venture ; productivity …

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Organizational forms for global engagement of firms

Bogheas, Sprios (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2008

do more than one of those activities. In our estimation we consider the relationship between productivity all the choice …

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Firm heterogeneity and choice of ownership structure : an empirical analysis of German FDI in India

Görg, Holger; Lauber, Verena; Meyer, Birgit; … - 2008

their engagement in already existing Indian firms. Most notably, the productivity of the German parents matters only for …

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Spatial effects of foreign direct investment in US states

Bode, Eckhardt; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Waldkirch, Andreas - 2009

This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct … externalities and other intra- and inter-regional spillovers generated by domestic firms. The productivity effects of these … explicitly as determinants of total factor productivity, and tests several empirical specifications of this model, using data for …

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Distance to frontier and the big swings of the unemployment rate : what room is left for monetary policy?

Hoon, Hian Teck; Kong Weng Ho - 2007

's productivity growth depends upon its distance from the world's technological leader. One motivating contemporary example includes …

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting : evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

technology imported from non-leaders increases exports by about 28 percent. -- Technology Choice ; Exporting ; Productivity …

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