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How Concentrated are Global Infrastructure Markets?

Benitez, Daniel; Estache, Antonio - 2012

concentration is a major political issue in view of the wide diversity of feelings about the potential role of the private sector … assessments of the degree of concentration in infrastructure at the global and at the regional level. Concentration issues were … identified in only about 20 percent of the cases studied, a presumption of concentration was found in another 30 percent of the …

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Investment Climate and International Integration

Dollar, David; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Mengistae, Taye - 2013

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common...

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Brazil's Bank Spread in International Context : From Macro to Micro Drivers

Jorgensen, Ole Hagen; Apostolou, Apostolos - 2014

In an international context, this paper analyzes the main drivers of Brazil's bank spreads measured by the net interest margin, by estimating internationally comparable measures for (i) institutional and regulatory (micro-) factors; (ii) macro-economic factors; and (iii) banking competition...

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Global Manufacturing SO2 Emissions : Does Trade Matter?

Grether, Jean-Marie - 2014

A growth-decomposition (scale, technique and composition effect) covering 62 countries and 7 manufacturing sectors over the 1990-2000 period shows that trade, through reallocations of activities across countries, has contributed to a 2-3 percent decrease in world SO2 emissions. However, when...

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Credit Chains and Sectoral Comovement : Does the Use of Trade Credit Amplify Sectoral Shocks?

Raddatz, Claudio - 2012

This paper provides evidence of the presence and relevance of a credit-chain amplification mechanism by looking at its implications for the correlation of industries. In particular, it tests the hypothesis that an increase in the use of trade-credit along the input-output chain linking two...

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Trade Across Countries and Manufacturing Sectors with Heterogeneous Trade Elasticities

Bolatto, Stefano - 2014

Multi-sector versions of the international trade model of Eaton and Kortum (2002) usually restrict trade elasticities to be identical across sectors, with potentially distorting effects on the estimates of the model parameters. This paper allows for heterogeneous sectoral trade elasticities and...

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