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Export-Import Bank: Changes Would Improve the Reliability of Reporting on Small Business Financing
The Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) provides loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to support U.S. exports. Its level of support for small business has been a long-standing is...
Company: U.S. General Accounting Office
Date: March 2006 |
U.S. General Accounting Office |
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Beyond the IMF Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb
The purpose of this paper is to examine the governmental and market mechanisms that are being developed in the world financial community as ways to complement and substit...
Company: Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four
Date: March 2006 |
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four |
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Reforming External Tariffs in Central and Western African Countries
This paper examines the reform of the external tariff initiated by the CEMAC and the WAEMU that is aimed at reinforcing their economic integration. Overall, there is broa...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: January 2006 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI
Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: December 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Exchange-Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices in the Euro Area
This paper presents an empirical analysis of transmission rates from exchange rate movements to import prices, across countries and product categories, in the euro area o...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: September 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Reforming the IMF: Back to the Drawing Board
This paper aims at contributing to this process. A main conclusion that emerges from the discussions above is that the original rationale of the Fund, namely to safeguard...
Company: Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four
Date: August 2005 |
Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four |
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The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth
This paper investigates the remarkable extremes of growth experiences within countries and examines the changes that occur when growth starts and stops. It finds three ma...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: July 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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The Free Trade Area of the Americas: The Great Challenge for Dispute Resolution
The effort to unite the economies of the Americas into a single free trade area began at the Summit of the Americas, which was held in December 1994 in Miami, Florida. Th...
Company: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Date: June 2005 |
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius |
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Bangladesh-India Bilateral Trade: Causes of Imbalance and Measures for Improvement
This paper makes an attempt to deal with the issues of bilateral trade relationship between Bangladesh and India. The second section of this paper highlights the historic...
Company: University of Sydney
Date: June 2005 |
University of Sydney |
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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?
This paper develops four propositions that show that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S&E) workers are eroding US dominance in S&E, which dim...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Importers, Exporters, and Multinationals: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. That Trade Goods
This paper provides an integrated view of globally engaged U.S. firms by exploring a newly developed dataset that links U.S. international trade transactions to longitudi...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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FDI and Trade - Two Way Linkages?
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the intertemporal linkages between FDI and disaggregated measures of international trade. It outlines a model exemplifying som...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Market Size, Trade, and Productivity
This paper develops a monopolistically competitive model of trade with firm heterogeneity - in terms of productivity differences - and endogenous differences in the 'toug...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade: Testable and Untestable Properties of the Melitz Model
This paper sets out a basic heterogeneous-firms trade model that is closely akin to Melitz (2003). The positive and normative properties of the model are studied in a man...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: June 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Endowment Versus Finance: A Wooden Barrel Theory of International Trade
This paper develops a theory of international trade in which financial development and factor endowments jointly determine comparative advantage. It applies the financial...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: June 2005 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Trade Responses to Geographic Frictions: A Decomposition Using Micro-Data
A large literature has shown that geographic frictions reduce trade, but has not clarified precisely why. This paper provides insights into why such frictions matter by e...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: May 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Lobbying Competition Over US Trade Policy
Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper investigates empirically the consequences of lobby...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: May 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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A Global View of Economic Growth
This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of the...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: April 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Implementing the Stability and Growth Pact: Enforcement and Procedural Flexibility
The paper analyzes some key policy trade-offs involved in the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact. Greater "procedural" flexibility in the Pact's implementati...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: March 2005 |
International Monetary Fund |
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Productivity Spillovers, Terms of Trade and the "Home Market Effect"
This paper analyzes the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in market size, or government spending. It introduces trad...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: March 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare
This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to eva...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: March 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Outsourcing Price Decisions: Evidence From U.S. 9802 Imports
This paper studies U.S. overseas assembly imports to identify whether factors related to information or search costs appear to condition outsourcing decisions. The data f...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: March 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade: Embassies as Export Promotion
As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: February 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective
Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by s...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: February 2005 |
International Monetary Fund |
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World Trade Flows: 1962-2000
This article documents a set of bilateral trade data by commodity for 1962-2000, which is available from www.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade ...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: January 2005 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Preference Utilisation and Tariff Reduction in EU Imports From ACP Countries
Despite the long relationship between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries aimed at encouraging their exports while stimulating growth and invest...
Company: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: December 2004 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
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Import Demand Elasticities and Trade Distortions
To study the effects of tariffs on gross domestic product (GDP), one needs import demand elasticities at the tariff line level that are consistent with GDP maximization. ...
Company: World Bank Group
Date: December 2004 |
World Bank Group |
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Does Openness to Trade Make Countries More Vulnerable to Sudden Stops, Or Less? Using Gravity to Establish Causality
Openness to trade is one factor that has been identified as determining whether a country is prone to sudden stops in capital inflow, currency crashes, or severe recessio...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: December 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange
How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? The paper tries to answer this question by using the relative trust European citizens have for citizens of other cou...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: December 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Trade Finance and Trade Flows: Panel Data Evidence From 10 Crises
This paper assesses the effect of constrained trade finance on trade flows in countries undergoing financial and balance of payments crises. Most of the countries that ha...
Company: International Monetary Fund
Date: December 2004 |
International Monetary Fund |
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"Export Experience" Under Borrowing Constraints
The paper develops a two-period, two-country, multigood model with endogenous investment. Borrowing is subject to quantitative restrictions. The authors examine the effec...
Company: Blackwell Publishing
Date: October 2004 |
Blackwell Publishing |
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Product Quality, Linder, and the Direction of Trade
A substantial amount of theoretical work predicts that quality plays an important role as a determinant of the global patterns of bilateral trade. This paper develops an ...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: October 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Inequality, Nonhomothetic Preferences, and Trade: A Gravity Approach
This paper shows that inequality is an important determinant of import demand, in that it augments the standard gravity model in a significant way. It interprets this res...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: September 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Exchange Rate Movements and Export Prices an Empirical Analysis
This paper uses an empirical approach based on Knetter to study the effect of currency changes on international trade prices. Exchange rate pass-through elasticities are ...
Company: University of Paris
Date: August 2004 |
University of Paris |
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Export Supply and Import Demand Models for the Turkish Economy
The study presented in this paper estimates the export supply and import demand for the Turkish economy using both single equation and vector auto regression frameworks. ...
Company: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Date: June 2004 |
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey |
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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita income growth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization p...
Company: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Date: May 2004 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Import Demand
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of trade reforms on import demand and derives their implications on economic development in Turkey, a country that underwent s...
Company: Florida International University
Date: April 2004 |
Florida International University |
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Economic & Business Focus: Dark Days for Trade
U.S. trade policy is now in disarray and poses a serious threat to the economic recovery. Some U.S. companies gain from the protectionism that led to these crises, but mo...
Company: Penton Media
Date: April 2004 |
Penton Media |
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict ...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: February 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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Surviving the U.S. Import Market: The Role of Product Differentiation
This paper examines the extent that product differentiation affects the duration of US import trade relationships. Applying nonparametric and semi-parametric techniques t...
Company: National Bureau of Economic Research
Date: February 2004 |
National Bureau of Economic Research |
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