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their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …
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This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … increases innovation activity and export shares of larger firms. In contrast, a model variant in which exporters have to finance … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller …
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Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...
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developing economy grows faster than the rest of the world as a result of global fragmentation and trade in intermediates if it …
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Using data from the World Uncertainty, World Trade Uncertainty, and World Pandemic Uncertainty indices for 142 … countries, this paper introduces three new indicators for measuring uncertainty in Turkey's export markets from the first … quarter of 1996 to the first quarter of 2020. The indicators measure uncertainty in Turkey's export destinations. After …
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Since the recovery from the great financial crisis in 2010, global real trade flows grew much slower than pre-crisis, in both absolute terms (growth rates) and relative terms (relative to GDP, from 2:1 in the great 1990’s to 1:1 since 2012) A debate has arisen as to whether this global trade...
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This study examines the effect of religiosity on terrorism by focusing on one of the five pillars of Islam: Ramadan fasting. For identification, we exploit two facts: First, daily fasting from dawn to sunset during Ramadan is considered mandatory for most Muslims. Second, the Islamic calendar is...
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We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
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We assess to which degree an international transfer mechanism can enhance consumption risk sharing as well as allocative efficiency and apply our results to the implicit transfers generated by a potential European unemployment benefit scheme (EUBS). Specifically, we first develop a simple model...
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Economists have reported econometric results that rely on estimates of the population of every country in the world for … the past two thousand or more years. The underlying source is usually McEvedy and Jones’ Atlas of World Population History …
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