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Depreciations Without Exports? Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports
Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2017
, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering …
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Does Energy Efficiency Promoteeconomic Growth? : Evidence from a Multi-Country and Multi-Sector Panel Data Set
Rajbhandari, Ashish - 2017
This paper examines the causal relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth based on panel data for 56 … high- and middle-income countries from 1978 to 2012. Using a panel vector autoregression approach, the study finds evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954323
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Assessing Real Exchange Rate Misalignments
Kubota, Megumi - 2017
cointegration estimates, and (b) pooled mean group estimates for non-stationary panel data. The paper constructs a dataset of real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975532
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Large Devaluations, Foreign Direct Investment and Exports : A Speculative Note
Lederman, Daniel - 2017
One side-effect of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09 was the resurgence of a debate over exchange rates. The conventional wisdom dictates that real-exchange rate adjustments are needed in order to bring about changes in trade balances across countries. However, the literature on the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976067
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Price Levels and Economic Growth : Making Sense of the PPP Changes between ICP Rounds
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
surveys, 99 percent of the variance in the observed changes in PPPs is explicable. Using a nested test, the World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976671
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Inequality and Economic Growth : The Role of Initial Income
Brückner, Markus - 2018
This paper estimates a panel model in which the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita …-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917240
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The Role of Exchange Rate and Non-Exchange Rate Related Factors in Polish Firms'Export Performance
Albinowski, Maciej - 2017
: a panel survey of Polish firms for 2005-13, and an exporter-level customs data set, for the same period, with detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967234
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Estimating an Equilibrium Exchange Rate for the Argentine Peso
Coppola, Andrea - 2017
This paper assesses the equilibrium value of the Argentine peso exchange rate based on the country's economic fundamentals and compares it with the official exchange rate value. The paper estimates a behavioral equilibrium exchange rate model that allows for movements in the equilibrium real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968767
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Testing Weak Exogeneity in Cointegrated Panels
Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2017
weak exogeneity in panel cointegration models. The test has a limiting Gumbel distribution that is obtained by first … letting the time dimension of the panel go to infinity and then letting its cross-sectional dimension go to infinity.The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972704
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Preferences, Purchasing Power Parity, and Inequality : Analytical Framework, Propositions, and Empirical Evidence
Majumder, Amita - 2017
This paper makes analytical, methodological and empirical contributions to the literature on purchasing power parity. Purchasing power parities are required in a host of cross-country welfare comparisons, such as poverty rates and gross domestic product. The subject has recently generated much...
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