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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-Emu Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the...
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Costa, Rui - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014669
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Goods and Factor Market Integration : A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017
The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949423
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Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices
Antras, Pol - 2011
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...
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The Great Trade Collapse
Bems, Rudolfs - 2012
We survey recent literature on the causes of the collapse in international trade during the 2008-2009 global recession. We argue that the evidence points to the collapse in aggregate expenditure, concentrated on trade-intensive durable goods, as the main driver of the trade collapse. Inventory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096140
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Trade in Intermediate Inputs and Business Cycle Comovement
Johnson, Robert C. - 2012
Does input trade synchronize business cycles across countries? I incorporate input trade into a dynamic multi-sector model with many countries, calibrate the model to match bilateral input-output data, and estimate trade-comovement regressions in simulated data. With correlated productivity...
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Supply-Chain Trade : A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses
Baldwin, Richard - 2013
since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083394
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-Globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2014
bit more than half the world's countries experience declining CHB and rising TFP. The effects are big for the outliers. A …
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Pollution and International Trade in Services
Levinson, Arik - 2014
Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is small, for two reasons. First, services account for...
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