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From global factory to global mall : East Asia's changing trade composition

Helble, Matthias; Ngiang, Boon-Loong - 2014

been the most successful region in the world in building up or joining regional and global supply chains and has been … one of the biggest "malls" in the world. Whereas in 1999 - 2000 around half of all consumption goods exported by East Asia … of the world. …

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Dollarization and Trade

Klein, Michael W. - 2021

Dollarization has been suggested as a policy that might, among other goals, promote trade between a country adopting the dollar and the United States. Evidence supporting this conjecture could be drawn from a recent series of papers by Rose and co-authors who show that a currency union increases...

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Fixed Exchange Rates and Trade

Klein, Michael W.; Shambaugh, Jay - 2021

exchange rate regimes in trade determination since a significant amount of world trade is conducted between countries with …

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How can environmental regulations spur international trade? : the case of the EU Performance of Buildings Directive and Lessons for Asia

Helble, Matthias; Majoe, Adam - 2017

International trade is one of the key mechanisms for the diffusion of energy efficient technologies. Yet, little is known how regulations to fight climate change affect the international trade in goods needed to increase energy efficiency. This paper studies the case of the Energy Performance of...

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Shifting towards a consumer-centered economy and the implications for international trade

Helble, Matthias - 2018

Globalization has radically changed the way in how goods and services are produced. The impact of globalization on …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Real Exchange Rate Linkages in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Linda S.; Klein, Michael W. - 2021

We investigate the relationships among trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate between a set of Southeast Asian and Latin American countries and both the United States and Japan. Foreign direct investment by both Japan and the United States to the Southeast Asian countries in...

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Salvaging the trans-pacific partnership : building blocks for regional and multilateral trade opening?

Helble, Matthias - 2017

The high hopes that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would open up trade across the Pacific were dashed by the decision of the new US Government under President Trump to withdraw from the agreement in January 2017. Despite being controversial, the TPP had been recognized as an agreement that...

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The Pacific's connectivity and its trade implications

Helble, Matthias - 2014

their small size and remoteness from major world markets. In this paper we study the importance of transport connectivity … for Pacific economies when participating in the world economy. The paper first describes the evolution of trade flows of … datasets. One contains all shipping connections within the Pacific and with the rest of the world; the second all flight …

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Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the Real Exchange Rate

Klein, Michael W.; Schuh, Scott D.; Triest, Robert K. - 2021

This paper contributes to an understanding of internationally generated adjustment costs by demonstrating a statistically significant and economically relevant effect of the real exchange rate on job creation and job destruction in U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1973 to 1993. The...

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International Trade and Factor Mobility : an Empirical Investigation

Goldberg, Linda S.; Klein, Michael W. - 2021

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been growing rapidly, at a pace far exceeding the growth in international trade. Thus, a full understanding of the relationship between trade in goods and FDI is important for obtaining a complete picture of the extent and sources of international linkages. We...

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