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The Long and Short (Run) of Trade Elasticities
Boehm, Christoph E. - 2020
We propose a novel approach to estimate the trade elasticity at various horizons. When large countries change Most Favored Nation (MFN) tariffs, small trading partners that are not in a preferential trade agreement experience plausibly exogenous tariff changes. The differential growth rates of...
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Structural Change with Long-run Income and Price Effects
Comin, Diego A. - 2015
We present a new multi-sector growth model that features nonhomothetic, constant-elasticity- of-substitution preferences, and accommodates long-run demand and supply drivers of structural change for an arbitrary number of sectors. The model is consistent with the decline in agriculture, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457074
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The Global Decline of the Labor Share
Karabarbounis, Loukas - 2013
The stability of the labor share of income is a key foundation in macroeconomic models. We document, however, that the global labor share has significantly declined since the early 1980s, with the decline occurring within the large majority of countries and industries. We show that the decrease...
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A Monetary Explanation of the Great Stagflation of the 1970s
Barsky, Robert - 2000
The origins of stagflation and the possibility of its recurrence continue to be an important concern among policymakers and in the popular press. It is common to associate the origins of the Great Stagflation of the 1970s with the two major oil price increases of 1973/74 and 1979/80. This paper...
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World Equilibrium with Oil Price Increases : An Intertemporal Analysis
Marion, Nancy Peregrim - 1983
world rate of interest(intertemporal terms of trade effects) and, for rigid wages, changes in employment. Thus Industria … gains from the intertemporal terms of trade effect if it is a net borrower and the world rate of interest falls. Precise … conditions for whether the world rate of interest falls or rises are given.We also show that Industria may gain from subsidizing …
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Oil and the Dollar
Krugman, Paul R. - 1980
whether the U.S. share of world oil imports is more or less than its share of OPEC asset holdings; in the long run, whether …
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Historical Oil Shocks
Hamilton, James D. - 2011
post-World-War-II oil shocks reviewed include the Suez Crisis of 1956-57, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-1974, the Iranian …
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After the Fall
Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2010
episodes include the 1929 stock market crash, the 1973 oil shock, the 2007 U.S. subprime collapse and fifteen severe post-World …
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Three Epochs of Oil
Dvir, Eyal - 2009
, the real price of oil has tended to be highly persistent and volatile whenever rapid industrialization in a major world …
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Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2008
In this paper we argue that the persistent global imbalances, the subprime crisis, and the volatile oil and asset prices that followed it, are tightly interconnected. They all stem from a global environment where sound and liquid financial assets are in scarce supply
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