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Making Sense of the Soviet Trade Shock in Eastern Europe: A Framework and Some Estimates

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

East European countries have experienced sharp declines in real GDP since 1990. One of the reasons for this decline is the Soviet trade shock caused by the collapse of the CMEA and of traditional export markets in the Soviet Union. This paper is an attempt to quantify the magnitude of this...

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Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe's Transition: Early Results

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

By the end of 1991, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland had achieved a substantial degree of openness to foreign trade. In all three countries, trade is now demonopolized and licensing and quotas play a very small role. Exchange controls have virtually disappeared for current-account...

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Distributive Politics and Economic Growth

Alesina, Alberto F; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous growth with distributive conflicts. We study both the case of two `classes' (workers and capitalists) and the case of a continuum distribution of agents, characterized by their...

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How to Save Globalization from its Cheerleaders

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The new conventional wisdom on globalization emphasizes that reaping the benefits of trade and financial integration is … alike. An alternative approach to globalization would focus on enhancing policy space rather than market access, and on …

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Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission

Artis, Michael J; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

separate periods, those of the first globalization wave (1870 to 1914), the period of the “bloc economy” (1915 to 1959) and for … the period of the second globalization (1960-2001). Cluster analysis is applied and the McNemar test is used to test for … that features some well-defined sub-global clusters, where the second globalization period does not, the first …

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Feasible Globalizations

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The nation-state system, democratic politics, and full economic integration are mutually incompatible. Of the three, at most two can be had together. The Bretton Woods/GATT regime was successful because its architects subjugated international economic integration to the needs and demands of...

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Business Cycle Synchronization Since 1880

Artis, Michael J; Chouliarakis, George; Harischandra, PKG - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper studies the international business cycle behaviour across 25 advanced and emerging market economies for which 125 years of annual GDP data are available. The picture that emerges is more fragmented than the one drawn by studies that focused on a narrower set of advanced market...

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Who Needs the Nation State?

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The design of institutions is shaped by a fundamental trade-off. On the one hand, relationships and heterogeneity push governance down. On the other, the scale and scope benefits of market integration push governance up. A corner solution is rarely optimal. An intermediate outcome, a world...

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