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combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of international trade, extending the idea to the open economy …. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or foreign suppliers, but with higher costs in the latter case. Due to fixed … costs of ordering firms hold an inventory of intermediates. We show that in response to an uncertainty shock firms optimally …
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This article studies inventories and monetary policy by estimating VAR models. The complex roots detected in our estimation generate cycles of around 55 to 70 months, which are quite close to actual business cycle lengths. This implies that production and inventories follow damped oscillations...
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In intermediate goods markets, both buyers and sellers normally have market power, and sales are based on bilaterally negotiated contracts specifying both price and quantity. In our model, pairs of buyers and sellers meet in bilateral but interdependent Rubinstein-Ståhl negotiations. The...
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This paper analyzes the evolution of the share of imported intermediate goods in the production process and its influence on the share of manufacturing in value added for the Brazilian economy, covering the period span 1995-2008. In a first step, we estimate input-output matrices, at constant...
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Vorleistungsgüter für die Herstellung der Exportgüter eingesetzt werden, sondern den Export-Import-Saldo insgesamt. Im Zusammenhang mit … last decade employment benefited much; while the rising import of intermediate and finished goods has caused many job cuts …
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und verarbeitete Kraft- und Schmierstoffe. Auf Wertschöpfungsbasis machten importierte Vorleistungen im Jahr 2015 24 … kommen aus anderen EU-Mitgliedstaaten. Besonders abhängig von importierten Vorleistungen sind die Textilindustrie (63 …
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Using highly disaggregated, Harmonized System (HS) 8-digit, product-category level data collected by the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Customs Office for 2000 and 2008, we perform an in-depth anatomy of the PRC's trade in manufactured goods. First, we distinguish between foreign firms...
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This report uses an international input-output dataset to present an analysis of Finland’s position in global value chains. The results show that intermediate products account for a larger share – some three-quarters – of Finnish exports than they do in most other countries. The share of...
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The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these countries. The model describes two symmetric countries trading with each other and the industrial rest of the world. Bilateral trade occurs at any moment if the countries have...
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