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This paper studies a Cournot duopoly in international trade so that the firms are exposed to exchange rate risk. A hedging opportunity is introduced by a forward market where the foreign currency can be traded on. We investigate two settings: First we assume that hedging and output decisions are...
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This paper studies a Cournot duopoly in international trade so that the firms are exposed to exchange rate risk. A hedging opportunity is introduced by a forward market where the foreign currency can be traded on. We investigate two settings: First we assume that hedging and output decisions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796261
Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), two regions with large growth potential, have become increasingly connected over the last 20 years. China has emerged not only as a top trading partner, but also as an important competitor of LAC exports. China's retreat from certain markets, due...
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This paper presents a set of collaborative filtering algorithms that produce product recommendations to diversify and optimize a country's export structure in support of sustainable long-term growth. The recommendation system is able to accurately predict the historical trends in export content...
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Using Japanese firm data covering the Japanese financial crisis in the early 1990s, we find that exporters' domestic sales declined more significantly than their foreign sales, which in turn declined more significantly than non-exporters' sales. This stylized fact provides a new litmus test for...
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This paper examines the impact of changes in the Chinese exchange rate on Korean exports taking into consideration the characteristics of the exported products. In this paper, we consider the degree of vertical product differentiation to be one of the causes that ease the negative spillover...
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This paper investigates the nature and pattern of export specialization in Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to … estimate the nature and pattern of Lithuanian export specialization under existing conditions. Seeking to define the nature and … pattern of export specialization, the basic methods of export specialization measurement and the nature and pattern of export …
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on export diversification and specialization, by investigating the extent of export diversification and specialization in …) model to investigate the economy-wide impacts of greater export diversification versus greater export specialization. We … find tentative evidence of a U-shaped relationship between per capita GDP and export specialization. Also, Granger …
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The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export status for a large panel of Irish manufacturing firms. Two-way traders and exporters-only are found to be the most productive firms, with a significant gap between them and...
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Existing South African work on firm-level data has been limited by access to large datasets that track firms over time. This paper overcomes this by analysing a new dataset of the population of manufacturing firms that are matched to their export transactions. South African firm-level exporting...
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