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Business cycle fluctuations and international financial integration

Kizys, Renatas (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A conditionally heteroskedastic global inflation model

Morales-Arias, Leonardo; Moura, Guilherme Valle - 2010

This article proposes a multivariate model of inflation with conditionally heteroskedastic common and country-specific components. The model is estimated in one-step via Quasi-Maximum Likelihood for the G7 countries for the period Q1-1960 to Q4-2009. It is found that various model specifications...

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Are they really rational? : Assessing professional macro-economic forecasts from the G7-countries

Dovern, Jonas (contributor); Weisser, Johannes (contributor) - 2008

In this paper, we use survey data to analyze the rationality of professional macroeconomic forecasts. We analyze both individual forecasts and average forecasts. We provide evidence on the properties of forecasts for all the G7-counties and four different macroeconomic variables. Furthermore, we...

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Consumption volatility and financial openness

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Yener, Serkan (contributor) - 2005

Economic theory predicts that the integration of financial markets lowers the volatility of consumption. In this paper, we study long-term trends in the consumption volatility of the G7 countries. Using different measures of financial openness, we find some evidence that greater financial...

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Scope for export-led growth in a large emerging economy : is India learning by exporting?

Tabrizy, Saleh S.; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

The ongoing debate of the literature on learning-by-exporting is whether the conspicuously stellar performance of exporters relative to non-exporters can be, at least partially, attributed to the horizonwidening interaction with foreign consumers and learning of cost-efficient and quality...

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Are newly exporting firms more innovative? : Findings from matched Spanish innovators

Hanley, Aoife; Monreal-Pérez, Joaquín - 2011

The prevalence of Internet-based sales by exporters vs. non-exporters is highlighted in a recent World Bank Report (Ferro, 2011) suggesting the use of sophisticated processes when selling overseas. We investigate the count of new process/ product innovations for a group of newly exporting...

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Learning by exporting : does it matter where one learns? ; Evidence from Colombian manufacturing plants

Trofimenko, Natalia (contributor) - 2005

Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through product quality upgrading. This study is based on the observation that the technological superiority and severity of product quality requirements are not the same in...

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China's overseas lending

Horn, Sebastian; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2019 - This draft: July 3, 2019

data on Chinese overseas debt stocks and flows. Third, the type of flows is tailored by recipient. Advanced and higher … backed by collateral such as oil. Our new dataset covers a total of 1,974 Chinese loans and 2,947 Chinese grants to 152 …

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What role for Chinese FDI in Africa? : new survey evidence from Ethiopia and Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Alemayehu Geda Fole; Görg, Holger; … - 2024

, in particular between Chinese and non-Chinese firms. Based on a firm level survey on Ethiopia and Ghana, we found that … countries. There is little difference between Chinese and non-Chinese foreign firms in such technology and managerial skill … & vertical spillover, directly adopting techniques). However, we found for Ghana that Chinese firms have more suppliers but are …

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting : evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that firms who invest in the state-of-the-art technologies...

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