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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is it Justified?

Amiti, Mary - 2011

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

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Four Decades of Terms-of-Trade Booms : Saving-Investment Patterns and a New Metric of Income Windfall

Adler, Gustavo - 2013

We study the history of terms-of-trade booms (during 1970–2012), with a focus on Latin America, through the prisms of a simple metric that quantifies the associated income windfall. We also document saving patterns during these episodes and propose a measure of how much of the income windfall...

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Food Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa : Causes and Policy Implications

Alper, C. Emre - 2017

This paper analyzes food inflation trends in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 2000 to 2016 using two novel datasets of disaggregated CPI baskets. Average food inflation is higher, more volatile, and similarly persistent as non-food non-fuel (NF/NF) inflation, especially in low-income countries...

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Experimental Indicators of Digital Industries in Select Countries : Definitions, Methods, and Results

Moulton, Brent; Tebrake, James; Tovar, Martha - 2022

The pervasive impact of digitalization on the economy and the lack of an agreed definition makes it challenging to obtain estimates of the digital economy. Nowadays, some countries have estimated the value of the digital economy by identifying digital products or industries as defined in the...

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The Rise in Corporate Saving and Cash Holding in Advanced Economies : Aggregate and Firm Level Trends

Dao, Mai - 2019

Using cross-country national accounts and firm-level data, we document a broad-based trend in rising gross saving and net lending of non-financial corporates across major industrialized countries over the last two decades, though most pronounced in countries with persistent current account...

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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity

Behar, Alberto - 2013

We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selection into trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity form, such that the extensive margin is also affected by...

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Trade Linkages, Balance Sheets, and Spillovers : The Germany-Central European Supply Chain

Elekdaǧ, Selim Ali - 2013

Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (the CE4) have been in a process of deepening economic integration which has lead to the development of a dynamic supply chain within Europe — the Germany-Central European Supply Chain (GCESC). Model-based simulations suggest two...

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Quality, Trade, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Chen, Natalie - 2014

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. Our model shows that the elasticity of demand perceived by exporters decreases with a real depreciation and with quality, leading to more...

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The Intensive Margin in Trade

Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2019

The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50 percent of variation in exports is along the...

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Fragmentation in Global Trade : Accounting for Commodities

Bolhuis, Marijn; Chen, Jiaqian; Kett, Benjamin - 2023

We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade fragmentation scenarios in a new multi-country, multi-sector,...

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