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Inflation Targeting and Real Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
We investigate inflation targeting (IT) in emerging markets, focusing on the role of the real exchange rate and the distinction between commodity and non-commodity exporters. IT emerging markets appear to follow a quot;mixed strategyquot; whereby both inflation and real exchange rates are...
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Firm Exports and Multinational Activity Under Credit Constraints
Manova, Kalina - 2011
ventures have better export performance than private domestic firms in financially more vulnerable sectors. These results are …
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Why World Exports are so Susceptible to the Economic Crisis --The Prevailing "Export Overshooting" Phenomenon
Liu, Bih Jane - 2011
This paper provides some evidence of the "export overshooting" phenomenon, i.e., the unusually large deviation of … exports from their long-run level. We study the export trends of a sample of 37 countries including both OECD and non …. Moreover, the extent of export overshooting was increasing in more recent crisis, which can be attributed to an increase in …
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Deductions from the Export Basket : Capabilities, Wealth and Trade
Sutton, John - 2011
relationship between a country's export mix and its wage (GDP per capita). We show that this non-monotonicity permeates the 1980 … and (2) for the poorest third of countries, changes in export mix substantially over-predict growth in GDP per capita …
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products : A Firm-Level Analysis
Arkolakis, Costas - 2010
To quantify trade frictions, we examine multi-product exporters. We build a flexible general equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination data under rich demand and market-access cost shocks. Our estimates show that additional products farther from a...
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Why Has the Yen Failed to Become a Dominant Invoicing Currency in Asia? A Firm-Level Analysis of Japanese Exporters' Invoicing Behavior
Ito, Takatoshi - 2010
It has been a well-known puzzle why the yen has not been used more in trade invoicing among Japanese exporters. Despite the yen's status as an only fully convertible currency in Asia, two patterns stand out as puzzling features of an excessively small share of yen invoicing: First, a strong...
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The Incidence of Geography on Canada's Services Trade
Anderson, James E. - 2011
We estimate geographic barriers to export trade in nine service categories for Canada's provinces from 1997 to 2007 …
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Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade : Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data
Paravisini, Daniel - 2011
We estimate the elasticity of exports to credit using matched customs and firm-level bank credit data from Peru. To account for non-credit determinants of exports, we compare changes in exports of the same product and to the same destination by firms borrowing from banks differentially affected...
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Exporting Christianity : Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of Us Denominations
Hanson, Gordon - 2011
In this paper we build a model of market competition among religious denominations, using a framework that involves incomplete contracts and the production of club goods. We treat denominations akin to multinational enterprises, which decide which countries to enter based on local market...
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Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports
Koopman, Robert - 2012
This paper proposes a framework for gross exports accounting that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double counted terms. By identifying which parts of the official trade data are double counted and the sources of the double...
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