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Real Effective Exchange Rate and the Constant Elasticity of Substitution Assumption »
Source: Real Effective Exchange Rate and the Constant Elasticity of Substitution Assumption
Volume/Issue: 2000/128
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Antonio Spilimbergo , and Athanasios Vamvakidis
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 July 2000
ISBN: 9781451855043
Keywords: trade forecasting and simulation, reer, equation, equations, statistics, cointegration
The real effective exchange rate is an aggregation of several bilateral real exchange rates with respect to other countries. The aggregation is usually done under the assumption of constant elasticity of substituti...

Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility »
Source: Holding International Reserves in an Era of High Capital Mobility
Volume/Issue: 2002/62
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Robert Flood , and Nancy Marion
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 April 2002
ISBN: 9781451848298
Keywords: International reserves, Reserves, capital mobility, reserve holdings, equation, skewness, central bank, statistics
Why do countries hold so much international reserves? Global reserve holdings (excluding gold) were equivalent to 17 weeks of imports at the end of 1999. That is almost double what they were at the end of 1960 and...

The Global Welfare Impact of China »
Source: The Global Welfare Impact of China : Trade Integration and Technological Change
Volume/Issue: 2012/79
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Julian Di Giovanni , Jing Zhang , and Andrei Levchenko
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
ISBN: 9781475502312
Keywords: productivity growth, trade costs, correlation, equation, Neoclassical Models of Trade, Economic Growth of Open Economies,
This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of China's trade integration and technological change in a quantitative Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative produc...

Trade Openness and Volatility »
Source: Trade Openness and Volatility
Volume/Issue: 2008/146
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Andrei Levchenko , and Julian Di Giovanni
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2008
ISBN: 9781451870046
Keywords: Output Volatility, Specialization, Comovement, Sector-Level Data, trade openness, aggregate volatility, correlation, equation, output growth,
This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, se...

Moral Hazard and International Crisis Lending: A Test »
Source: Moral Hazard and International Crisis Lending : A Test
Volume/Issue: 2002/181
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Giovanni Dell'Ariccia , Jeronimo Zettelmeyer , and Isabel Schnabel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2002
ISBN: 9781451859201
Keywords: international lending, bond, crisis lending, bond spreads, bonds, International Lending and Debt Problems, Econometric Methods: - Single Equation Models,
We test for the existence of a moral hazard effect attributable to official crisis lending by analyzing the evolution of sovereign bond spreads in emerging markets before and after the Russian crisis. The nonbailou...

Protectionist Responses to the Crisis »
Source: Protectionist Responses to the Crisis : Damage Observed in Product-Level Trade
Volume/Issue: 2011/139
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Brad McDonald , and Christian Henn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2011
ISBN: 9781455265442
Keywords: Global Crisis, First-differenced Gravity Equation, Time-varying Fixed Effects, WTO, trade impact, import restrictions, trade flows, global trade, world trade, Trade: General
This paper investigates how trade flows are being affected by new discriminatory measures implemented during the global financial crisis. We match data on behind-the-border measures (e.g., bailouts and subsidies) a...