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"We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short- and long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on...
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While substantial empirical research has evaluated the question of whether capital account openness promotes economic growth, this paper finds empirical evidence for cases where the opposite is true--that a policy of capital controls can promote economic growth, when combined with a policy of...
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World Bank and widely used in contemporary economic research. GS derives from the theoretical work on wealth accounting, and … countries to enhance, complement, and contextualise the work of the World Bank and others …
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. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and longer-distance trade between countries contribute to this usage increase …
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How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …
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We study the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Euro Area inflation and how it compares to the experiences of other countries, such as the United States, over the two-year period 2020-21. Our model-based calibration exercises deliver four key results: 1) Compositional effects - the switch from...
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We study the aggregate effects of supply-chain disruptions in the post-pandemic period in a heterogeneous-firm, general equilibrium model with input-output linkages and a rich set of supply chain frictions: uncertain shipping delays, fixed order costs, and storage costs. Firms optimally hold...
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Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or …
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"Climate change and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have exposed the vulnerability of global agricultural supply and value chains. There is a growing awareness of the importance of interactions within and between these supply chains for understanding the performance of agricultural markets. This...
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Global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress as a result of US-China trade tensions, the Covid-19 pandemic, and geopolitical shocks. We document shifts in the pattern of US participation in global value chains over the last four decades, in terms of partner countries, products, and...
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