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Firm dynamics in retail trade: The response of Canadian retailers to exchange rate shocks
Baggs, Jen; Beaulieu, Eugene; Fung, Loretta; Lapham, Beverly - 2015
We use comprehensive firm-level data to estimate the responses of heterogeneous Canadian retail firms to real exchange rate movements. Our analysis focuses on a period characterized by large fluctuations in the Canadian dollar, providing an opportunity to quantify both intensive and extensive...
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Changing Paradigm of Indo-Japan Relations: Opportunities and Challenges
Rajamohan, P. G.; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Jacob, Jabin T. - 2008
India's growing economic strength of recent years has seen it adapting its foreign policy to increase its global … vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the definition of its security interests. As a result, India … global partnership between them.India and Japan share a special relationship as fellow democracies without hegemonic …
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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry
Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002
Are product market and entry regulation key sources of low employment growth in many European countries? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been required for the creation or extension of any large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261526
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Sports Retailinf in India: Opportunities, Constraints and Way Forward
Mukherjee, Arpita - 2010
Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the country has been hosting … provides an overview of the sports retail sector in India. Specifically, it presents the different retail formats, consumer … entry barrier since foreign retailers can establish their presence in India through other routes. The study found that since …
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Exchange rates, cross-border travel, and retailers: Theory and empirics
Baggs, Jen; Fung, Loretta; Lapham, Beverly - 2015
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of nominal exchange rate movements on cross-border travel by consumers and on retail firms' sales. We develop a search-theoretic model of price-setting heterogeneous retailers and traveling consumers who face nominal...
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Digital trade in Europe and Central Asia
Tan, Shawn W. - 2017
The Internet greatly increases firms' potential to produce new goods and service for new markets. The Internet is also having a dramatic impact on services, especially in the retail, trade and finance sectors, by enabling firms to digitize their products and deliver them over long distances....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852981
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Global products price differential between countries in the context of European Union trade regulations. The case of e-commerce markets
Pestkowski, Andrzej - 2015
In the age of globalization, development of economic integration, trade liberalization, Internet and technological progress particularly in ways of distribution, we may expect that global homogeneous products will have equal price in the common currency on every market around the world. Despite...
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E-commerce provisions in RTAs: Implications for negotiations and capacity building
Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2020
This paper addresses the regulatory and policy environments conducive for e-commerce to thrive. In particular, as regulatory issues affecting e-commerce have become more prominent in recent regional trade agreements (RTAs), the paper seeks to investigate their role in setting the regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249281
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Exchange rates, retailers, and importing: Theory and firm-level evidence
Alexander, Patrick; Chernoff, Alex - 2019
We develop a model with firm heterogeneity in importing and cross-border shopping among consumers. Exchange-rate appreciations lower the cost of imported goods, but also lead to more cross-border shopping; hence, the net impact on aggregate retail prices and sales is ambiguous. Using Canadian...
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Suomen kasvu: Menetetty vuosikymmen ja lähivuosien mahdollisuudet
Kaitila, Ville; Kauhanen, Antti; Kuusi, Tero; Lehmus, Markku - 2018
In the report we analyse the reasons for the weakness of Finland’s economic performance over the past decade and assess the growth prospects in the coming 5 years. The weakness of Finland’s performance relative to comparative EU-countries since 2009 can largely be explained by the collapse...
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