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tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in … substantial fragmentation from 2010 onward. Flight to quality was present at the height of the crisis, but has largely dissipated … in yields following the OMT announcement, the high current degree of fragmentation poses difficult challenges for policy …
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's initial level of domestic political fragmentation. We emphasize the role of the 'Military Revolution', which raised the cost …
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paper evaluates the impact of dark trading and fragmentation in visible order books on liquidity. We consider global … traditional market only. We find that fragmentation in visible order books improves global liquidity, whereas dark trading has a … detrimental effect. In addition, local liquidity is lowered by fragmentation in visible order books, which suggests that the …
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understood, a sufficient condition for all countries to gain from fragmentation is that the relative world prices of initially … paper is motivated by recent evidence that trade has greatly expanded on the extensive margin (aka fragmentation, offshoring …-trade goods don't change. However, trade costs break the strict link between domestic and world prices in my approach and this …
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This Paper looks at the impact of international vertical specialization when the final good industry is imperfectly competitive. Final goods are assembled out of different fragments. In the absence of international vertical specialization all fragments required to produce a given final good must...
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stages is bounded only by the fragmentation of the underlying engineering process, and lower frictions monotonically increase …
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since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
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Although the global economy has begun to recover from the 2008-2011 financial crisis, challenges to the world trading …
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paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of production activities to try to capture the specific features of …
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This Paper presents a macroeconomic model where firms may endogenously outsource part of their production process. We start from the premise that adaptation to uncertainty cannot be contracted upon in the worker - employer relationship. Outsourcing decisions then balance flexibility gains...
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