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One reason why countries service their external debts is the fear that default might lead to shrinkage of international trade. If so, then creditors should systematically lend more to countries with which they share closer trade links. We develop a simple theoretical model to capture this...
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foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom … credit guarantees, or received capital injections. We use standard empirical panel-data techniques to study the "loan mix …," domestic (British) loans of a bank expressed as a fraction of its total loan activity. We also study effective short …
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Nowadays researchers can choose the sampling frequency of exchange rates and interest rates. If the number of observations per contract period is large relative to the sample size, standard GMM asymptotic theory provides unreliable inferences in UIP regression tests. We specify a bivariate...
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The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...
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trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years spanning 1970 through 1990 for 186 countries …
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large panel data set covering fifty years and over 200 trading partners. The model controls for a host of factors that …
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I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has increased the stability and predictability of trade flows. I use a large dataset covering annual bilateral trade flows between over 175...
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We use a panel of annual data for over one hundred developing countries from 1971–92 to characterize currency crashes …
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As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing themselves as agents of export promotion. I investigate whether exports are in fact systematically...
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This Paper is an empirical study of fiscal policy in countries with extreme monetary regimes. We study members of multilateral currency unions, dollarized countries that officially use the money of another country, and countries using currency boards. We find that belonging to an international...
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