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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000

This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...

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Gravity, Productivity and the Pattern of Production and Trade

Anderson, James E. - 2009

frictions in production and distribution of a many country world. The starting point is the international incidence of … reduce sectoral skill premia. Bigger sellers' incidence by country (sector) reduces equilibrium shares of world (national …

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Consumption Risk and International Asset Returns : Some Empirical Evidence

Cumby, Robert E. - 1987

The paper examines if real stock returns in four countries are consistent with consumption-based models of international asset pricing. The paper finds that ex-ante real stock returns exhibit statistically significant fluctuations over time and that these fluctuations cannot be explained by...

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International Banking and Liquidity Risk Transmission : Lessons from Across Countries

Buch, Claudia M. - 2014

Network, established in 2012, brings together researchers from around the world with access to micro-level data on individual …

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Micro, Macro, and Strategic Forces in International Trade Invoicing

Goldberg, Linda S. - 2009

The use of different currencies in the invoicing of international trade transactions plays a major role in the international transmission of economic fluctuations. Existing studies argue that an exporter's invoicing choice reflects structural aspects of her industry, such as market share and the...

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Macroeconomic Interdependence and the International Role of the Dollar

Goldberg, Linda S. - 2008

The U.S. dollar holds a dominant place in the invoicing of international trade, along two complementary dimensions. First, most U.S. exports and imports invoiced in dollars. Second, trade flows that do not involve the United States are also substantially invoiced in dollars, an aspect that has...

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Trade Costs

Anderson, James E. - 2004

goods within countries, much of which makes economic sense. Theory looms large in our survey, providing interpretation and … and interpret gravity theory properly and to handle aggregation appropriately …

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Social Security and Democracy

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2002

Many political economic theories use and emphasize the process of voting in their explanation of the growth of Social Security, government spending, and other public policies. But is there an empirical connection between democracy and Social Security program size or design? Using some new...

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The World Distribution of Income (estimated from Individual Country Distributions)

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2002

We estimate the world distribution of income by integrating individual income distributions for 125 countries between … hosted 11% of the world's poor in 1960. It hosted 66% of them in 1998. We estimate nine indexes of income inequality implied … by our world distribution of income. All of them show substantial reductions in global income inequality during the 1980s …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Real Exchange Rate Linkages in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Linda S. - 1997

We investigate the relationships among trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate between a set of Southeast Asian and Latin American countries and both the United States and Japan. Foreign direct investment by both Japan and the United States to the Southeast Asian countries in...

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