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Lejour, Arjan; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo; Rodriguez, Victor; … - 2009

This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts …

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Trade advantages and specialisation dynamics in acceding countries

Zaghini, Andrea - 2003

The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in 2004, by studying the dynamics of their comparative advantages over the period 1993-2000. The study finds that, although some countries are still broadly relying on natural...

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The impact of monetary union on trade prices

Anderton, Robert; Baldwin, Richard E.; Taglioni, Daria - 2003

Two seemingly unconnected empirical results suggest an intriguing mechanism. First, economic integration helps harmonize prices internationally, with trade being the primary channel (Rogoff 1996, Goldberg and Knetter 1997). Second, monetary union may greatly increase the amount of trade among...

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Trade with central and eastern Europe

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an …-based industries. Nevertheless, increased trade reinforces the productivity-wage link and weakens the co-movement of wages particularly …

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Financial regulation, financial globalization and the synchronization of economic activity

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Papaioannou, Elias; Peydró, … - 2010

We identify the effect of financial integration on international business cycle synchronization, by utilizing a confidential database on banks’ bilateral exposure and employing a country-pair panel instrumental variables approach. Countries that become more integrated over time have less...

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Sectorial border effects in the European Single Market

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to explain the relation between the Border Effect and industrial concentration. This is achieved by founding this relation on the Home Market Effect and testing the robustness of this foundation through an application to the European Single Market. A sectorial...

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Is China climbing up the quality ladder?

Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...

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EU productivity and competitiveness: an industry perspective

O'Mahony, Mary (contributor); Ark, Bart van (contributor) - Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Unternehmen; … - 2003

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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004

the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated …

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Creative destruction and transition: The effects of firm entry and exit on productivity growth in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Philips, Kaia - 2004

firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also, decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms are carried out. The … productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity …

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