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Economic Growth in North America : Is Canada Outperforming the United States?
Macdonald, Ryan - 2012
This Economic Insight looks at commonly-used measures that are employed to compare the relative economic performance of Canada and the United States. It is based on research undertaken at Statistics Canada aimed at improving information about how and why Canadian and U.S. economic progress differs
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172481
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Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing : Implications for Productivity and Value Added
Houseman, Susan N.; Kurz, Christopher Johann; … - 2012
The rapid growth of offshoring has sparked a contentious debate over its impact on the U.S. manufacturing sector, which has recorded steep employment declines yet strong output growth -- a fact reconciled by the notable gains in manufacturing productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189153
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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2014
Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision. This paper quantifies the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430113
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281451
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511759
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2015
Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision. This paper quantifies the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493916
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537240
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International sectoral spillovers: An empircal analysis for German and US Industries
Smolny, Werner - 1995
In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … Germany for 1960-1990. The time-series/cross-sectoral data set allows to investigate country-specific convergence, and to …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332098
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Anhaltende Divergenz der Lohnstückkostenentwicklung im Euroraum problematisch
Dullien, Sebastian; Fritsche, Ulrich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 22, pp. 349-357
Die Wachstumsschwäche in einigen europäischen Ländern wie Portugal und Italien in der ersten Hälfte dieses Jahrzehnts sowie anhaltend hohe Inflationsraten und ein Bauboom in Spanien haben zu einer Debatte darüber geführt, ob sich möglicherweise die einzelnen Länder der Eurozone...
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Nested stochastic possibility frontiers with heterogeneous capital inputs
Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - 2007
This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or non-neutralities...
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