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In this paper we analyze the effects of the real exchange rate volatility on exports in the Baltic region. The study focuses on three countries in the Baltic region, namely, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and uses quarterly exports of these countries to their major trading partners over the...
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We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China … between exporter and importer countries. Higher reliance on foreign inputs, on China as input supplier, on unskilled labor and …
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traditional long-run export demand model with gravity type variables. In the empirical analysis we use a panel comprising 25 years …
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The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
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This paper uses transaction-level data from Thailand to study concentration, specialization, and fragility of export … several decades, direct engagement in international trade through exports is a rare activity. Export firms are different from … their non-export counterparts. Export activities are also extremely concentrated. There is a great deal of churning in Thai …
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The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892161
As a result of the global economic crisis and the situation in the EU, as well as that of the Russian-Ukraine conflict, the Baltic exports have decreased toward these countries, while there is a slight increase in exports to other regions, mainly to Asia, meaning that Asian developing countries...
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Although Kenya was once viewed as being among the African countries with the most favorable growth prospects, the last two decades witnessed significant declines in many measures of economic performance and social standards. As a result, Kenya's share of world trade is now less than one-half its...
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In this paper we estimate the trade effects of the euro adoption in Central European countries using a modified gravity model. In particular, we analyze the ex post implications of accession of Slovenia and Slovakia to the Eurozone. We employ a gravity model that controls for an extended set of...
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We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...
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