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On the International Transmission of Shocks : Micro-Evidence from Mutual Fund Portfolios
Raddatz, Claudio - 2011
This paper uses micro-level data on mutual funds from different financial centers investing in equity and bonds to study how investors and managers behave and transmit shocks across countries. The paper finds that the volatility of mutual fund investments is driven quantitatively by both the...
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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions
Nashashibi, Karim - 1974
In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...
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Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers
Ha, Jongrim - 2020
We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...
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Might Global Uncertainty Promote International Trade?
Baley, Isaac - 2019
Common wisdom dictates that uncertainty impedes trade--we show that uncertainty can fuel more trade in a simple general equilibrium trade model with information frictions. In equilibrium, increases in uncertainty increase both the mean and the variance in returns to exporting implying that trade...
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Is Financial Globalization in Reverse After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis? Evidence from Corporate Valuations
Doidge, Craig - 2020
valuation gap for firms from developed markets increases by 31% after the GFC - a reversal in financial globalization - while …
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De-globalization : Driven by Global Crises?
Razin, Assaf - 2020
. Financial globalization gathered force. Trade globalization, however, reversed course since the Global Financial Crisis. The new … financial globalization …
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Globalization and Global Crises : Rest of the World vs. Israel
Razin, Asaf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. The paper provides an overview of the new globalization trends in the world and in Israel, with emphasis on the role of …Post WWII globalization forces are facing headwinds in the form of global crises-the "The Great Recession" and the "The … Pandemic Recession". Israel's trade and financial globalization, however, is steadily rising. The pandemic-induced slump in …
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2010
bit more than half the world's countries experience declining CHB and rising TFP. The effects are big for the outliers. A …
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Do Global Banks Spread Global Imbalances? The Case of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-09
Acharya, Viral V. - 2010
The global imbalance explanation of the financial crisis of 2007-09 suggests that demand for riskless assets from countries with current account surpluses created fragility in countries with current account deficits, most notably, in the United States. We examine this explanation by analyzing...
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-up Growth?
Romer, Paul M. - 2010
Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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