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emerging and advanced economies. We assess the impact of appreciations, productivity booms and capital flow surges using a … propensity-score matching approach to address causality issues. We show that appreciations associated with higher productivity …
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emerging and advanced economies. We assess the impact of appreciations, productivity booms and capital inflows surges using a … propensity-score matching approach to address causality issues. We show that appreciations associated with higher productivity …
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productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in Australia, New Zealand, and their major trading partners accounts for a …
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(FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …
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A new dataset on export sophistication reveals that in many countries the importance of modern services, and the sophistication of manufactured and service exports, has increased over time. However, this trend was less pronounced in LICs. Sophisticated sectors are more likely to act as a...
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This paper presents empirical evidence on convergence of per capita output for regions within six large middle-income Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. It explores the role played by several exogenous sectoral shocks and differences in steady states...
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productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement … productivity of Canadian industries, the persistence of structural differences between the two countries has prevented convergence … of aggregate labor productivity. While these findings seem to weigh against moving toward a monetary union, they also …
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