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Export Spillovers from Global Shocks for the Middle East and Central Asia

Behar, Alberto; Espinosa-Bowen, Jaime - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

GDP indicate non-oil export volumes are relatively responsive while service exports are less responsive. Downward …This paper quantifies the effect of realized and potential global growth disappointments on export volumes from the … Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Estimates of export elasticities with respect to trading partner …

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Constraints on Trade in the MENA region

Wolde, Hirut; Bhattacharya, Rina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

, particularly on exports. We then go on to 'augment' the standard gravity model with relevant variables from the World Bank …

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Assessing Competitiveness After Conflict; The Case of the Central African Republic

Lewis, Mark; Nachega, Jean-Claude; Bakhache, Said; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper assesses competitiveness in the case of the Central African Republic, a postconflict country. The paper presents several conventional techniques for assessing competitiveness, namely the real exchange rate and recent trade performance. Several other measures are considered, in...

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Trade Costs, Market Integration, and Macroeconomic Volatility

Naknoi, Kanda; Brunner, Allan D. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper examines the effects of trade costs on macroeconomic volatility. We first construct a dynamic, two-country general equilibrium model, where the degree of market integration depends directly on trade costs (transport costs, tariffs, etc.). The model is a extension of Obstfeld and...

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Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?

Romalis, John; Amiti, Mary - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less generous than it appears because of low product coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering...

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Trade Effects of Currency Unions; Do Economic Dissimilarities Matter?

Albertin, Giorgia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper provides a general equilibrium analysis of the trade effects of the formation of a currency union, and of its subsequent enlargement to include an economically dissimilar country. Furthermore, it investigates how economic dissimilarities among countries affect the magnitude of the...

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Trade Costs and Location of Foreign Firms in China

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This study examines the determinants of entry into by foreign firms, using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic geography, focuses on market and supplier access within and outside the province of entry, as well...

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Demand Spillovers and the Collapse of Trade in the Global Recession

Yi, Kei-Mu; Bems, Rudolfs; Johnson, Robert C. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper uses a global input-output framework to quantify US and EU demand spillovers and the elasticity of world trade to GDP during the global recession of 2008-2009. We find that 20-30 percent of the decline in the US and EU demand was borne by foreign countries, with NAFTA, Emerging...

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Elasticity Optimism

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2009

In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...

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Trade and Thy Neighbor's War

Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

of conflict, estimation methods, and specifications, and underscore the importance of taking into account spillover …

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