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Openness, Productivity and Growth : What Do We Really Know?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2021

For over a century social analysts have debated the connection between trade policy and economic performance. This controversy continues today, even as the world is experiencing an unprecedented period of trade liberalization, and in spite of numerous empirical studies that claim to have found a...

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Trade Policy, Exchange Rates and Growth

Edwards, Sebastian - 2021

This paper analyzes the relationship between trade policy and economic performance. The paper is divided in two fundamental parts. The first one uses a cross country data set to investigate the relationship between trade policy and productivity growth. It is found that countries that are more...

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Before the Accord : U.S. Monetary-Financial Policy 1945-51

Eichengreen, Barry; Garber, Peter M. - 2021

Thia paper analyzes U.S. monetary-financial policy in the period leading up to the Treasury-Fed Accord. We model policy as an implicit target zone for the price level and an explicit zone for interest rates, and the difficulties on the eve of the Accord as an incipient run on a collapsing...

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The Economic Consequences of the Franc Poincare

Eichengreen, Barry; Wyplosz, Charles - 2021

In this paper we reassess the cyclical performance of the French economy in the 1920s, focusing in particular on the … exports as a share of GDP turned down as early as 1928, the economy continued to expand for several subsequent years …. Investment, not exports, emerges as the proximate source of the French economy's resistance to the Great Depression. And fiscal …

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Africa's role in multilateral trade negotiations : past and future

Wang, Zhen-kun - In: Plenary sessions / African Economic Research Consortium (1997), pp. 37-69

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The political economy of unilateral trade liberalization : the case of Chile

Edwards, Sebastian; Lederman, Daniel - In: Going alone : the case for relaxed reciprocity in …, (pp. 337-393). 2002

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Recent U.S. Trade Policy and its Global Implications

Baldwin, Robert E. - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to describe United States trade policy since World War II, and to assess the possibility for ongoing U.S.trade-policy leadership. U.S. trade policy has shown remarkable consistency since World War II. It has never been as purely free-trade-focussed as some...

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From Benign Neglect to Malignant Preoccupation : U.S. Balance-of-Payments Policy in the 1960s

Eichengreen, Barry - 2010

expanding world economy was dollar balances. The role of the United States was to act as banker to the world, borrowing short …

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U.S. Trade Policy Since 1934 : An Uneven Path Toward Greater Trade Liberalization

Baldwin, Robert E. - 2010

This paper presents a comprehensive but relatively brief historical survey of U.S. trade-policy over the last 75 years. It is aimed at individuals who are not already familiar with the concepts and terminology used in discussions of trade policy and the domestic and international institutional...

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Trade and Industrial Policy Reform in Latin America

Edwards, Sebastian - 2022

This paper documents and evaluates the process of trade reforms in Latin America from the mid-1980s until 1993. It provides an analytical and historical discussion of the consequences of industrial policies in the region, from the early 1950s when import-substitution ideas were supported by the...

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