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By analysing a newly compiled database of exchange rates, this paper finds that Central European financial integration advanced in a cyclical fashion over the fifteenth century. The cycles were associated with changes in the money supply. Long-distance financial integration progressed in...
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the ensuing decline in domestic demand producers in economies of transition have been forced to export to developed … lagged behind.This study attempts to examine those firms in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus which have succeeded to export to the … shall be identified. The impact of ownership, firm characteristics and managerial attitudes on a firm's export propensity …
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that the two policies will have different impact on macroeconomic indicators, inter alia exchange rate, export, import and …
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We examine whether exposure to gender inequality at export destinations affects the gender wage gap in exporting firms … employer- employee data from Sweden and calculate how exposed firms are to country-level gender inequality through their export … destinations. Although increased export intensity on average leads to a wider within-firm gender wage gap, the effect is entirely …
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Why has Swiss export performance been so strong during the past quarters despite the marked appreciation of the CHF … analyzing a panel of Swiss exports disaggregated along both the regional and the industry dimension. To explain the export … performance of the recent past, we estimate how the exchange rate and demand growth in each export market affect trade flows and …
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manufacturing firms starting export activities. Nevertheless, there are no corresponding findings for firms that stop exporting or …
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they mainly export to far away markets, or when they export differentiated goods. Our results are little changed (1) when …
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within firms regarding their export response on markets other than Russia, since the negative impact was concentrated on …
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Globalization affects the mix of jobs available in an economy and the rate at which workers gain skills. We develop a model in which firms differ in terms of productivity and workers differ in skills, and use the model to examine how globalization affects the wage distribution and the career...
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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