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Mexico's Integration into NAFTA Markets
Juvenal, Luciana - 2008
differentials and nonlinearities in the behavior of sectoral real exchange rates across Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Interpreting … price threshold bands as transactions costs, we find evidence that Mexico still face higher transaction costs than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677581
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Mexico's Integration into NAFTA Markets : A View from Sectoral Real Exchange Rates and Transaction Costs
Juvenal, Luciana - 2008
differentials and nonlinearities in the behavior of sectoral real exchange rates across Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Interpreting … price threshold bands as transactions costs, we find evidence that Mexico still face higher transaction costs than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409023
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Spillovers Across NAFTA
Bayoumi, Tamim A. - 2008
world-the United States, euro area, Japan, and the rest of the world-to Canada and Mexico, and decomposing the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677555
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How Has Nafta Affected the Mexican Economy? Review and Evidence
Kose, M. Ayhan; Towe, Christopher M.; Meredith, Guy - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of NAFTA on growth and business cycles in Mexico. The … effect of the agreement in spurring a dramatic increase in trade and financial flows between Mexico and its NAFTA partners … facts and recent empirical research. The paper concludes by drawing lessons from Mexico's NAFTA experience for policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599680
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Chile; Trade Performance,Trade Liberalization, and Competitiveness
Monfort, Brieuc - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper analyses the evolution of Chile's trade between 1990 and 2007, studying in particular the impact of trade liberalization in addition to traditional price and demand determinants. The results show that export and import flows are mainly responsive to external and domestic demand, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825996
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Africa's Oil Abundance and External Competitiveness; Do Institutions Matter?
Qureshi, Mahvash Saeed - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper examines the structural competitiveness of oil-rich economies in sub-Saharan Africa relative to other major oil-exporting developing countries, and investigates reasons for systematic differences in the non-oil export performance across these economies. The analysis reveals that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826047
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Japan out of the lost decade : divine wind or firms’ effort?
Ogawa, Kazuo; Saito, Mika; Tokutsu, Ichiro - 2012
A surge of exports in the 2000s helped Japan exit the severe decade-long stagnation known as the lost decade. Using panel data of Japanese exporting firms, we examine the sources of the export surge during this period. One view argues that the so-called ""divine wind"" or exogenous external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620269
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Specialization, Market Access and Real Income
Bartelme, Dominick - 2024
This paper estimates the impact of external demand shocks on real income. We utilize a first order approximation to a wide class of small open economy models that feature sector-level gravity in trade flows, which allows us to measure foreign shocks and characterize their welfare impact in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058607
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High Performance Export Portfolio: Design Growth-Enhancing Export Structure with Machine Learning
Che, Natasha - 2022
This paper studies the relationship between export structure and growth performance. We design an export recommendation system using a collaborative filtering algorithm based on countries' revealed comparative advantages. The system is used to produce export portfolio recommendations covering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060463
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Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic : trade integration and economic performance
Medina Cas, Stephanie; Swiston, Andrew; Barrot, Luis-Diego - 2012
This paper studies the potential for the export sector to play a more important role in promoting growth in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPDR) through deeper intra-regional and global trade integration. CAPDR countries have enacted many free trade agreements and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009622936