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The Consumption Terms of Trade and Commodity Prices
Berka, Martin - 2009
trade, providing a natural hedge against world price fluctuations. We find the consumption terms of trade at local prices is … more volatile than at world prices, but the two are strongly positively correlated. The same commodities dominate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463069
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The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938
Blattman, Christopher - 2003
The contending fundamental determinants of growth -- institutions, geography and culture --exhibit far more persistence than do the growth rates they are supposed to explain. So, what exogenous shocks might account for the variance around those persistent fundamentals? The terms of trade seems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468757
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From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth
Broda, Christian - 2006
the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466154
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China's FDI and Non-FDI Economies and the Sustainability of Future High Chinese Growth
Whalley, John - 2006
This paper presents assesses of the contribution of inward FDI to China's recent rapid economic growth using a two … Chinese economy. These enterprises account for over 50% of China's exports and 60% of China's imports. Their share in Chinese … results indicate that China's FIEs may have contributed over 40% of China's economic growth in 2003 and 2004, and without this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466419
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Terms of Trade, Exchange Rates and Labor Markets Adjustment in Developing Countries
Edwards, Sebastian - 1986
This paper uses three models of a small open economy to analyze the effects of terms of trade and exchange rate changes (i.e. devaluations) on labor market adjustment. First, a three goods (exportables, importables, non-tradables), four factors model is developed and used to investigate how an...
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Do Developed and Developing Countries Compete Head to Head in High-tech?
Edwards, Lawrence - 2010
This finding has important implications. While measures of across product specialization suggest China and other Asian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462551
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Productivity Spillovers, Terms of Trade and the "Home Market Effect"
Corsetti, Giancarlo - 2005
This paper analyzes the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in market size, or government spending. We introduce trade costs and endogenous varieties in a two-country general-equilibrium model with monopolistic competition, drawing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467520
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Financial Crises and the Global Supply Network : Evidence from Multinational Enterprises
Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper empirically examines the effects of financial crises on the organization of production of multinational enterprises. We construct a panel of European multinational networks from 2003 through 2015. We use as a financial shock the increase in risk premia between August 2007 and July...
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Estimating real production and expenditures across nations : a proposal for improving the Penn world tables
Feenstra, Robert C. (contributor) - 2004
"In this paper we propose a new approach to international comparisons of real GDP measured from the output-side. The traditional Geary-Khamis system to measure real GDP from the expenditure-side is modified to include differences in the terms of trade between countries. It is shown that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522867
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What Causes Fluctuations in the Terms of Trade?
Baxter, Marianne - 2000
This paper investigates the sources of terms of trade volatility, specifically addressing the relative importance of goods-price effects vs. country-price effects. For fuel exporters, most of the terms of trade variation stems from goods-price effects, as one would have expected, a priori. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471314