This article for the first time uses Brazilian trade data to draw conclusions about the invoice currency choice - both in general and as it pertains to the Brazilian real (BRL). We find that the Brazil-Argentina policy of providing payment orders associated to an exchange transaction between...

Dieses Fachbuch hat das Ziel, exportorientierte Unternehmen mit einer strategisch geplanten Kalkulation auf mögliche Stolpersteine im Außenhandel vorzubereiten. Daher werden generelle, aber auch nicht leicht ersichtliche Kostengruppen beziehungsweise Einflussfaktoren genau dargestellt und...

When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...

The data analyses consumers' decision making processes in the telecommunications market. The dataset includes both autoethnographic videographies and experimental quantitative data. The data comprises an extended autoethnographic methodology with 22 participants. Participants recorded video...

The interaction between financial markets and the macroeconomy can be strongly affected by changes in credit market regulations. In order to take account of these effects the authors control explicitly for regime shifts in a system of debt equations for Norway using a common, flexible trend. The...

In this paper we look at the role of pre-payment (in the context of prepayment metering) for household electricity consumption. Using a matching approach, we find that households paying their electricity up-front tend to consume no less electricity than households paying ex post. This is despite...

We show a simple way to introduce monopolistic competition in a general equilibrium model where prices are fully .exible, the velocity of money is variable and cash-in-advance (CIA) constraints occasionally bind.We establish the conditions under which money has real effects and demonstrate that...

Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) condition future loans on the implementation of some policy action (‘investment’). We build an...

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a portion of the $200 billion annually given to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts...

Throughout Latin America, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs play an important role in social policy. These programs aim to influence the accumulation of human capital, as well as reduce poverty. In terms of educational outcomes, a number of impact evaluation studies have shown that such...