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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Trade shocks"”.
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Microeconomic implications of trade shocks in developing countries
… individual- and firm-level responses to trade and local labor market shocks in developing countries. The first chapter studies the effect of a trade-induced negative shock to manufacturing employment on leading causes of mortality in Mexico between 1998 and 2013. I exploit …
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Three Essays on Agricultural and Food Trade Shocks and Regional Integration
… regional integration on agricultural and food trade, relying on a unique international and intranational (domestic) agri-food trade dataset and structural gravity. In the first chapter, we investigate the impact of animal diseases on trade of animal-based products. We found that animal disease …
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Trade Shocks and Trade Policy: Firm Export Behaviour and Competition in International Markets
… explores the effects of international trade policy cooperation on firm export behaviour and competition in international markets. It is motivated by three facts. First, firms are increasingly exposed to international trade. World trade has grown by an average of 5% over the last 30 …
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Essays on monetary policy, institutions and terms of trade shocks in emerging market economies
… and the exposure to commodity terms of trade shocks and how they shape the macroeconomic dynamics and the conduct of monetary policy. These issues are discussed in three essays. The first essay empirically evaluates the role of institutional structures in inflation targeting in emerging …
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Essays on macroeconomic performance under alternative exchange rate regimes
… to better insulate the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-1996) of 74 developing countries to assess whether the response of real GDP, real exchange rates and prices to terms of trade shocks differ systematically across exchange rate regimes. I find that real …
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Essays on international macroeconomics
This thesis examines the impact of terms of trade shocks on commodity-exporting small, open economies. The first chapter examines whether households, firms and policymakers in these economies can distinguish between temporary and permanent commodity price shocks. I find that they are largely unable …
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Essays in Internationsl Political Economy
… by historical colonialism, the importance of trade shocks in shifting political power balances and shaping institutional development and the influence that major political powers have over the decisions of smaller nations. I study these three questions empirically in four papers that span …
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ESSAYS ON THE WTO ACCESSION, HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
… Without the right set of policies, a deepening trade-openness policy in China may enlarge social disparities and some people may further be deprived of basic public services and opportunities. To address these concerns, this dissertation, a set of three essays in Chapters 2-4, examines the …
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Essays in International Finance
… surprising lack of correlation between terms of trade shocks and output in small open economies. </p><p>The first chapter shows that the much-studied Uncovered Interest Rate Parity (UIP) puzzle, the observation that exchange rates do not adjust sufficiently to offset interest rate differentials, …
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Essays in applied microeconomics: effects of environmental and trade policy shocks
… the domestic market in response to external trade shocks, mitigating part of the export losses.
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Essays on Firms in International Trade
… to a changing environment in international trade through three distinct topics. I examine how firms adjust their technology investment to foreign competition and demand, and how firm performance is affected by a global trade policy shock. And I investigate the dynamics of firms’ choices of …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… evaluates the employment effects of the Japanese trade shock of the 1960s-1980s, and whether they were racially disparate. Most importantly, we test whether differential occupational exposure drove racially disparate effects. Using detailed establishment-level data and a shift-share instrumental …
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From plan to market: firm-level adjustment to trade liberalization and business environment reform. Evidence from Vietnam
… three essays, provides empirical evidence of how trade liberalization, together with local business environment features, affects firms' performance in the context of a transitional country, Vietnam. The main focus centres particularly on firms' productivity (the first and second essays). As firms …
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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
… examines the relationship between international trade and environmental outcomes. In particular, I study the impact of international trade on airborne pollutants, including the change in emissions and concentration as well as their welfare consequences. In the first chapter, I suggest the …
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Public debt in sub-Saharan African countries: determinants and economic effects
… and policies, conflict, and adverse terms of trade shocks. The study employs the fixed effects and system GMM methods under the assumption of homogeneity, and the mean group estimators when assuming that the debt-growth nexus is heterogeneous across countries. It employs a dataset comprising …