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Does democracy shape international merger activity? 民主会影响国际兼并活动吗？
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103995
Muhammad Farooq Ahmad , Thomas Lambert , José M. Martín-Flores , Arthur Romec
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Common trade exposure and business cycle comovement 共同的贸易风险和商业周期关联
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103998
Oscar Avila-Montealegre , Carter Mix
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Cross-country price dispersion: Retail network or national border? 跨国价格分散：零售网络还是国家边界？
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103996
Teresa Messner , Fabio Rumler , Georg Strasser
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Clustered sovereign defaults 集群式主权违约
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103999
Anurag Singh
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The political economy of currency unions 货币联盟的政治经济学
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103991
Kai Arvai
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Dollar and government bond liquidity: Evidence from Korea 美元与政府债券流动性：韩国的证据
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103992
Jieun Lee
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New dawn fades: Trade, labour and the Brexit exchange rate depreciation 新的曙光消逝贸易、劳动力与英国脱欧汇率贬值
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103993
Rui Costa , Swati Dhingra , Stephen Machin
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Fly the unfriendly skies: The role of transport costs in gravity models of trade 飞上不友好的天空运输成本在贸易引力模型中的作用
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103994
Tibor Besedeš , Jing Chu , Antu Panini Murshid
{"title":"Fly the unfriendly skies: The role of transport costs in gravity models of trade","authors":"Tibor Besedeš ,&nbsp;Jing Chu ,&nbsp;Antu Panini Murshid","doi":"10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103994","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103994","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We exploit exogenous shocks to flight distances over time to estimate the distance effect in airborne trade within panel regressions. We find a negative distance effect, which we interpret as evidence of a link between transportation costs and airborne trade. Notably, this relationship is driven almost entirely by changes at the extensive margin. Specifically, trade in HS 6 product categories with intermittent trading histories becomes dormant when flight distances increase. Conversely, the intensive margin of trade remains largely unaffected.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16276,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Economics","volume":"152 ","pages":"Article 103994"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142086819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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How important are trend shocks? The role of the debt elasticity of interest rate 趋势冲击有多重要？债务利率弹性的作用
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103990
Yin Germaschewski, Jaroslav Horvath, Loris Rubini
{"title":"How important are trend shocks? The role of the debt elasticity of interest rate","authors":"Yin Germaschewski,&nbsp;Jaroslav Horvath,&nbsp;Loris Rubini","doi":"10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103990","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103990","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study how financial frictions affect the importance of trend productivity shocks for macroeconomic fluctuations. Using long-run data from 17 small open economies (SOEs), we compare two variants of a workhorse SOE real business cycle model featuring a debt-elastic interest rate (DEIR), a measure of financial frictions. The first variant estimates the DEIR parameter, while the second fixes it to 0.001, effectively abstracting from financial frictions. On average, ignoring financial frictions doubles the contribution of trend shocks to output fluctuations. This suggests that a proper assessment of the quantitative effects of trend shocks requires reasonable DEIR values.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16276,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Economics","volume":"152 ","pages":"Article 103990"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142011726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A tale of tier 3 cities 三线城市的故事
IF 3.8 1区 经济学
Journal of International Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103989
Kenneth S. Rogoff , Yuanchen Yang
{"title":"A tale of tier 3 cities","authors":"Kenneth S. Rogoff ,&nbsp;Yuanchen Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103989","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jinteco.2024.103989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>China's outsized real estate sector has long been a key engine of growth. However, with decades of construction at break-neck speeds having produced a massive increase in the quantity and quality of China's housing stock, the question arises as to whether diminishing returns are beginning to set in. At the same time, there is the question of whether real estate has been a major driver of today's high levels of local government debt, which may create heightened financial vulnerabilities. We investigate these questions using a new database that includes city level estimates of China's housing stock. Our formal statistical results suggest that real estate is indeed running into diminishing returns to growth while at the same time being a significant driver of local government debt, with both effects being driven mainly by China's smaller and less prosperous tier 3 cities (which nevertheless account for 60% of GDP).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16276,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Economics","volume":"152 ","pages":"Article 103989"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142044572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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