of a country's institutions, heterogeneity, and a number of different international indices and rankings. I have little … success; small countries are more open to international trade than large countries, but are not systematically different …I search for a 'scale' effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and …

distinct countries or territories have left a currency union, while over sixty have remained continuously in currency unions. I … compare countries leaving currency unions to those remaining within them, and find that leavers tend to be larger, richer, and …

behaviour, as the result of public intervention, which leads domestic banks either to lend less or at higher interest rates to …," domestic (British) loans of a bank expressed as a fraction of its total loan activity. We also study effective short …

, domestic-currency bond market. Bond holders suffer from inflation and could be a potent anti-inflationary force; I ask whether … the introduction of a bond market. My primary focus is on countries with inflation targeting regimes, though I also … examine countries with hard fixed exchange rates and other monetary regimes. Inflation-targeting countries with a bond market …

covering annual bilateral trade flows between over 175 countries between 1950 and 1999, and estimate the effect of GATT …

This Paper estimates the effect on international trade of multilateral trade agreements: the World Trade Organization … (GSP) extended from rich countries to developing countries. I use a standard ‘gravity’ model of bilateral merchandise trade … and a large panel data set covering over fifty years and 175 countries. Despite an extensive search, I am basically unable …