Andre Varella Mollick

The Impact of the Japanese Purchases of U.S. Treasuries on the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate (2008)

Mollick, Andre Varella, Soydemir, Gokce

This article connects net Japanese purchases of U.S. Treasury securities and the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond yields to the yen/dollar exchange rate. VAR estimations suggest that a one-time increase in...

The Impact of the Japanese Purchases of U.S. Treasuries on the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate (2008)

Mollick, Andre Varella, Soydemir, Gokce

This article connects net Japanese purchases of U.S. Treasury securities and the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond yields to the yen/dollar exchange rate. VAR estimations suggest that a one-time increase in...

The Impact of the Japanese Purchases of U.S. Treasuries on the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate (2008)

Mollick, Andre Varella, Soydemir, Gokce

This article connects net Japanese purchases of U.S. Treasury securities and the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond yields to the yen/dollar exchange rate. VAR estimations suggest that a one-time increase in...

The Impact of the Japanese Purchases of U.S. Treasuries on the Dollar/Yen Exchange Rate (2008)

Mollick, Andre Varella, Soydemir, Gokce

This article connects net Japanese purchases of U.S. Treasury securities and the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond yields to the yen/dollar exchange rate. VAR estimations suggest that a one-time increase in...

Inventory control in the Japanese vehicle industry (2007)

Andre Varella Mollick

The Japanese vehicle industry has reduced the ratio of inventories to sales (I/S) over time. Compared with similar industries in the USA, such a reduction in I/S implies good inventory control,...

Inventory control in the Japanese vehicle industry (2007)

Andre Varella Mollick

The Japanese vehicle industry has reduced the ratio of inventories to sales (I/S) over time. Compared with similar industries in the USA, such a reduction in I/S implies good inventory control,...

Infrastructure and FDI Inflows into Mexico: A Panel Data Approach (2006)

Mollick, Andre Varella, Ramos-Duran, Rene, Silva-Ochoa, Esteban

In December 1993, restrictions to foreign ownership across major Mexican economic sectors were abolished. This paper studies output, industrialization intensity, ``international infrastructure", and...

Infrastructure and FDI Inflows into Mexico: A Panel Data Approach (2006)

Mollick, Andre Varella, Ramos-Duran, Rene, Silva-Ochoa, Esteban

In December 1993, restrictions to foreign ownership across major Mexican economic sectors were abolished. This paper studies output, industrialization intensity, ``international infrastructure", and...

Infrastructure and FDI Inflows into Mexico: A Panel Data Approach (2006)

Mollick, Andre Varella, Ramos-Duran, Rene, Silva-Ochoa, Esteban

In December 1993, restrictions to foreign ownership across major Mexican economic sectors were abolished. This paper studies output, industrialization intensity, ``international infrastructure", and...

Infrastructure and FDI Inflows into Mexico: A Panel Data Approach (2006)

Mollick, Andre Varella, Ramos-Duran, Rene, Silva-Ochoa, Esteban

In December 1993, restrictions to foreign ownership across major Mexican economic sectors were abolished. This paper studies output, industrialization intensity, ``international infrastructure", and...

Can Globalisation Stop the Decline in Commodities' Terms of Trade? The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis Revisited"

Andre Varella Mollick, Joao Ricardo Faria, Pedro H. Albuquerque

Several empirical studies report the existence of declining terms of trade between commodities and manufactures, supporting the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis. As globalisation leads to greater...

Relative wages, labor supplies and trade in Mexican manufacturing: Evidence from two samples

Andre Varella Mollick

How do relative wages (between skilled and unskilled workers) respond to technical progress and to relative supply shifts? An empirical model of the wage premium for Mexican manufacturing is employed...

The Rise of the Skill Premium in Mexican Maquiladoras

Andre Varella Mollick

The wage premium between skilled and unskilled workers in Mexican maquiladoras has moved up, from 4.14 in January 1990 to 4.79 in March 2006. This 16 per cent increase in wage differentials favouring...

China's Exports and the Oil Price

Joao Ricardo Faria, Andre Varella Mollick, Pedro H. Albuquerque, Miguel Leon-Ledesma

The increase in oil prices in recent years has occurred concurrently with a rapid expansion of Chinese exports in the world markets, despite China being an oil importing country. In this paper we...

Human Capital Development, War and Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa

Adil Suliman, Andre Varella Mollick

The authors use a panel data fixed effect model to identify the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) for a large sample of 29 sub-Saharan African countries from 1980 to 2003. They test...