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Everyone knows about seasonality. But what exactly do we know? This study systematically measures seasonal price gaps at 193 markets for 13 food commodities in seven African countries. It shows that the commonly used dummy variable or moving average deviation methods to estimate the seasonal gap...
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their terms of trade, export revenues, and real incomes. The general case for this export pessimism has lost much of its … force, but remains very much alive for some specific countries and commodities - particularly the export of cocoa, coffee … incomes and tax and export revenues compare under existing taxes. It analyzes the impact of export expansion on real income …
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This paper investigates the extent of China's export boom in machinery and analyzes trade in components and finished …
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authors find that the current export structure of Argentina is not conducive to future growth because it is dominated by low …, including partly processed meat, fish and grains. If economic growth is to be fostered by developing new export products and by …
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-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador. To correct for the non-random truncation problems, they use the … Heckman selection model to estimate the probability of exporting (export propensity) and the share of total sales that are … exported (export intensity) by Ecuadorian firms. They develop a baseline model with 12 independent variables divided into three …
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thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …
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-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path … modeling of these processes in theoretical work, particularly in the search for export booms, should be of a stochastic flavor …
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connectivity, measured by transport costs to the maritime port, is important for farmers to choose export crops, such as cotton and …
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This study examines whether foreign direct investment inflows facilitate upgrading of export quality in host countries … affiliates in the upstream (input-supplying) industries. This relationship is present irrespective of export destination or …
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This paper studies how a positive export shock -- the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … exogenous to Bangladesh, the authors instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. The paper compares … predictions from long-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, this paper finds that the export …
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