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Germany versus the United States: Monetary Dominance in the Eurozone
Quah, Chee-Heong - In: Economies 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-16
This study inspects if there is greater convergence with Germany amongst the Eurozone founding members and if their relations with the hegemonic economy have been more symmetrical after "euroization". The dimensions explored are those inspired by the optimum currency areas (OCA) framework. To...
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Argentinean real exchange rate 1900 - 2006: Testing purchasing power parity theory
dal Bianco, Marcos José - In: Estudios de Economía 35 (2008) 1, pp. 33-64
This paper tests the Purchasing Power Parity Theory of Exchange Rates dealing with Argentinean data for the period 1900-2006. This is equivalent to testing if the Real Exchange Rate is a stationary variable or if its components (the nominal exchange rate and the relative prices) are...
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Substitution between immigrant and native farmworkers in the United States: Does legal status matter?
Wei, Xuan; Onel, Gulcan; Guan, Zhengfei; Roka, Fritz M. - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 10 (2019) 1, pp. 1-27
The policy debate surrounding the employment of immigrant workers in U.S. agriculture centers around the extent to which immigrant farmworkers adversely affect the economic opportunities of native farmworkers. To help answer this question, we propose a three-layer nested constant elasticity of...
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Equilibrium Exchange Rates and Misalignments: The Case of Homogenous Emerging Countries
Tipoy, Christian K.; Breitenbach, Marthinus C.; … - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 66 (2016) 4, pp. 3-25
We compute the exchange rate misalignment for a set of emerging economies between 1980 and 2013 using the behavioural equilibrium exchange rate definition. The real equilibrium exchange rate is constructed using a parsimonious model and estimators that are robust to cross-sectional independence...
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Estimating natural rate of interest and equilibrium exchange rate: A case of the Czech Republic
Pikhart, Zdeněk; Froňková, Pavla - In: Review of Economic Perspectives 19 (2019) 4, pp. 231-248
Article deals with estimating real natural interest rate and exchange rate to construct monetary conditions index suitable for the Czech open economy. Despite unobservable characteristics of underlying interest rates and exchange rate, the importance of reference indicators for monetary policy...
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Asiatische Aufhol-Länder im globalen Technologiewettbewerb: die FuE- und Bildungsanstrengungen von Korea, China und Indien im Vergleich
Krawczyk, Olaf; Legler, Harald; Gehrke, Birgit - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 2, pp. 79-94
China, Indien und Korea sind aufgrund ihrer Wachstumsdynamik, aber vor allem auch als Konkurrenten und … hochentwickelten Volkswirtschaften aufgeschlossen. China und vor allem Indien hängen vom Entwicklungsstand her zwar noch zurück, holen … aber spürbar auf. China ist mittlerweile zum bedeutendsten Exporteur von Informations- und Nachrichtentechnologien und …
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Left-behind children and return migration in China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple …
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Foreign direct investment, trade, and economic growth: An empirical analysis of Bangladesh
Hussain, Mohammed Ershad; Haque, Mahfuzul - In: Economies 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-14
The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita GDP for Bangladesh with the help of annual time series data for 1973 to 2014. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) analysis shows that there is a long-term relationship...
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The role of tourism in economic growth: Empirical evidence from Saudi Arabia
Naseem, Sana - In: Economies 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-12
Tourism is vital to the success of many economies worldwide and has been a widely researched area for many years. Unfortunately, an insufficient number of studies have been conducted on this subject in the context of Saudi Arabia. Therefore, this research investigates the role of tourism in...
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Exchange rate movements and export market dynamics: Evidence from China
Huang, Xiaobing - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 11 (2017) 2017-23, pp. 1-27
This paper highlights the relationship between foreign exchange rate fluctuations and firms' export market dynamics using a Chinese firm-level production data and a firm-level trade data over the period of 2000-2006. This study adopts a discrete-time survival model in our empirical investigation...
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