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We analyze the role of industrial and non-industrial production sectors in the US economy by adopting a novel multilevel factor model. The proposed model is suitable for high-dimensional panels of economic time series and allows for interdependence structures across multiple sectors. The...
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We argue that, under certain conditions, firms consider exports as a substitute for domestic demand. Our econometric …
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strength of the link between domestic demand and exports is dependent on capacity constraints. Our econometric model for six … same transition variable. We find that domestic demand developments are relevant for the short-run dynamics of exports when … exports turns out to be stronger the larger is the deviation of capacity utilization from its average value over the cycle. …
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strength of the link between domestic demand and exports is dependent on capacity constraints. Our econometric model for six … same transition variable. We find that domestic demand developments are relevant for the short-run dynamics of exports when … exports turns out to be stronger the larger is the deviation of capacity utilization from its average value over the cycle. …
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This paper investigates the impact of human capital on economic growth in Guatemala through the application of an error-correction methodology. Two channels are analyzed, by which human capital is expected to influence growth. A better-educated labor force appears to have a positive and...
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This study examined the composition effect of government expenditure on private consumption and output growth in Nigeria using the framework of single equation error correction mechanism. The unit root and cointegration tests were conducted on the variables of interest while single equations...
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How do short and long term interest rates respond to a jump in financial uncertainty? We address this question by conducting a local projections analysis with US monthly data, period: 1962-2018. The state-of-the-art financial uncertainty measure proposed by Ludvigson, Ma, and Ng (2019) is found...
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This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP growth. The authors first estimate firm-level TFP under alternative … control for the possibility that selection into exports may not be a random process. Their results confirm the self …
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