This paper evaluates the extent of adverse selection in life insurance and annuities in international markets, for both … group and individual products. We also compare results with prior analyses of adverse selection in international annuity … in international insurance markets …

We examine the possible effects of private international cartels on developing countries by looking in detail at three … recent cartel cases, as well as at a broader cross-section of 42 recently prosecuted international cartels. We discuss the … cartels on developing country consumers. By combining trade data with a sample of US and European prosecutions of …

allocation of resources across developed countries at the business cycle frequency. Here we discuss how evidence on international … quantity comovement, exchange rates, asset prices, and international portfolio holdings can be used to assess efficiency …

for technology diffusion, how this changed over time, and whether international trade, foreign direct investment, and … spillovers favor convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of … from the early 1970s to the 1990s. Third, I estimate that trade patterns account for the majority of all differences in …

In this paper, we empirically assess the causal links between trade and individual income risk and study the role that …-industry changes in imports and exports are causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and they … and the linkage between trade and risk: While, on average, individuals with higher levels of industry- or occupation …