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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...

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Asia’s Growth, the Changing Geography of World Trade, and Food Security: Projections to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with...

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Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Rapid economic growth in some emerging economies in recent decades has significantly increased their global economic importance. If this rapid growth continues and is strongest in resource-poor Asian economies, the growth in global demand for imports of primary products also will continue, to...

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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …

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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children

Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

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Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children

Dercon, Stefan; Porter, Catherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it …-22 years who experienced this severe shock as infants during the crisis. An innovative feature of the analysis is that famine … siblings, and compared with an IV cross-section, using rainfall as an instrument for the shock. We find that by adulthood …

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Strategic Complementarities and Optimal Monetary Policy

Levin, Andrew; López-Salido, J David; Yun, Tack - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper, we show that strategic complementarities--such as firm-specific factors or quasi-kinked demand--have crucial implications for the design of monetary policy and for the welfare costs of output and inflation variability. Recent research has mainly used log-linear approximations to...

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The 'Genome' of NEG Models with Vertical Linkages: A Positive and Normative Synthesis

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper takes a broader look at how vertical linkages can trigger the spatial agglomeration of economic activity in a ‘new economic geography’ (NEG) set-up. First, it formally establishes the key positive features of a wide class of vertical-linkage models without resorting to numerical...

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Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization

Costinot, Arnaud; Rodriguez-Clare, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying theme of our survey is methodological. We rely on gravity models and demonstrate how they can be used for counterfactual analysis. We highlight how various economic...

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The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-As-You-Go Pension System: A Proposal For a Partial Transition to a Funded System

Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

It is shown that the net fiscal externality created by an additional member of a pay-as-you-go-pension system that is endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions of this member. In Germany, this equals about 175,000 Deutsche marks. The paper uses this information to design a...

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