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Thomas Chaney
Researcher at Economic Policy Institute
Publications - 46
Citations - 4554
Thomas Chaney is an academic researcher from Economic Policy Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Exchange rate & Collateral. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 43 publications receiving 3784 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Chaney include University of Toulouse & Center for Economic and Policy Research.
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Productivity Overshooting: The Dynamic Impact of Trade Opening with Heterogeneous Firms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors build a dynamic model of trade with heterogeneous products, which extends the work of Melitz (2003) and shows that when countries open up to trade, they will experience a productivity overshooting.
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Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age
TL;DR: In this paper, a structural gravity model of long-distance trade in the Bronze Age is proposed to locate lost ancient cities, showing that the distribution of ancient city sizes, inferred from trade data, is well approximated by Zipf's law.
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Exchange rate pass-through in a competitive model of pricing-to-market
Raphael Auer,Thomas Chaney +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the Mussa and Rosen (1978) model of quality-pricing under perfect competition and find evidence that in response to an exchange rate appreciation, the composition of exports shifts towards high unit price goods.
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Migrants, Ancestors, and Investments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 130 years of data on historical migrations to the United States to show a causal effect of the ancestry composition of US counties on foreign direct investment (FDI) sent and received by local firms.
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The Network Structure of International Trade
TL;DR: In this article, a simple dynamic model of the formation of an international social network of importers and exporters is proposed, where firms can only export into markets in which they have a contact and acquire new contacts both at random and via their network of existing contacts.