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, Colombia and Mexico -- and three East Asian countries--Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. It identifies a number of potential …
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Is there any empirical evidence that firms become more efficient after becoming exporters? Do firms that become exporters generate positive spillovers for domestically-oriented producers? In this paper we analyze the causal links between exporting and productivity using firm-level panel data...
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inflations in the 1980s. Several other countries, for example Colombia, have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods …
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We study the transmission of sovereign debt inflow shocks on domestic firms. We exploit episodes of large sovereign debt inflows in six emerging countries that are due to the announcements of these countries' inclusion in two major local-currency sovereign debt indexes. We show that these...
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, and capital mobility - Chile, Colombia and Mexico - to investigate the extent to which Federal Reserve actions are …
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While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, the empirical literature has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue productivity (TFPR), which is downward biased if more efficient producers...
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the border in 2016, which precipitated a massive immigration wave, homicides in Colombia increased in areas close to the …
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This paper explores the relationship between wages and foreign investment in Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States … countries: higher levels of foreign investment are associated with higher wages. In Mexico and Venezuela, foreign investment was … domestic firms. In the United States there is evidence of wage spillovers. The lack of spillovers in Mexico and Venezuela is …
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This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country 'pollution havens'. Although we find some evidence that foreign investors locate in sectors with high levels of air pollution, the evidence is weak at best. We then examine whether foreign firms pollute...
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This paper examines the effect of volatility on the costs and benefits of financial market integration. The basic framework combines the costly state verification model and the contract enforceability approach. The welfare effects of financial market integration are assessed by comparing welfare...
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