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Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "Trade balance"
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Title:The US Trade Deficit, the Decline of the WTO and the Rise of Regionalism
Author(s):AGUR, ItaiDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper argues that the growing US trade deficit has caused the decline of the
WTO and the rise of regional trade agreements. A country in de.cit prefers to retain
market power against countries with a large surplus. ...
Title:S-Curve Redux: On the International Transmission of Technology Shocks
Author(s):ENDERS, Zeno; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series, we find that technology shocks induce an ‘S’-
shaped cross-correlation function for the trade balance and the terms of trade (S-curve). In calibrating
a prototypical ...