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Japans Lehren für das Schweizer Wechselkursdilemma

Schnabl, Gunther - 2015

Nettoauslandsvermögen wie der Schweizer Franken und der japanische Yen unter einem persistenten Aufwertungsdruck stehen …

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Exchange rate misalignments: Historical experience of Japan, Germany, Singapore and Taiwan compared to China today

Qin, Duo; He, Xinhua; Liu, Yimeng - 2010

Japanese yen, Deutsche mark, Singapore dollar and Taiwan dollar, with regard to the recent dispute over the Renminbi (RMB …

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The Yen real exchange rate may be stationary after all: Evidence from nonlinear unit-root tests

Chortareas, Georgios; Kapetanios, George - 2003

rates has so far provided, at best, mixed results. The yen real exchange rate behavior, as compared to other major … by providing new evidence on the stationarity of bilateral yen real exchange rates. We employ a non-linear version of the … of the tests against mean-reverting nonlinear alternative hypotheses. Our results suggest that the bilateral yen real …

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Specialization on a technologically atagnant aector need not be bad for growth

Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2004

This paper presents a simple North-South model of endogenous growth, based on learning by doing, which is consistent with the following empirical observations: (i) the price of investment goods relative to consumption goods has been falling for the last 40 years in most industrialized countries,...

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Immigration and native welfare

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration surplus (Borjas, 1995,1999), the other identifying a welfare loss due to terms-of-trade effects (Davis & Weinstein, 2002). We decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into...

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Eight strategies for development in comparison

Priewe, Jan - 2015

The article provides a broad-based overview on competing development strategies and the economic performance of developing countries, mainly since the year 2000. Four traditional mainstream development strategies are discussed (Washington Consensus, neo-liberalism, "good governance" and MDGs)...

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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - 2000

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade:...

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How do firms in Argentina get financing to export?

Castagnino, Tomás; D'Amato, Laura; Sangiácomo, Máximo - 2012

This paper delves into the importance of access to .nancing for the performance of firms in export markets. Based on a unique microeconomic database that combines data on Argentine firms' characteristics and export performance with information on their domestic and external financing, we provide...

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Quality standards for food products: A particular burden for small producers in developing countries?

Chemnitz, Christine; Grethe, Harald; Kleinwechter, Ulrich - 2007

This paper develops an analytical framework which structures the problem of whether, how and to what extent small producers in developing countries are disadvantaged by the increasing prevalence of food quality standards. Based on a literature review, the empirical evidence is structured and...

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The global welfare impact of China: Trade integration and technological change

Di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Zhang, Jing - 2013

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and technological change in a quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a balanced one in which China's productivity grows at the...

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