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Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility : How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

Alexander Swoboda is one of the originators of the bipolar view that capital mobility creates pressure for countries to abandon intermediate exchange rate arrangements in favor of greater flexibility and harder pegs. This paper takes another look at the evidence for this hypothesis using two...

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Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

Eichengreen, Barry - 2004

, with the spread of globalization, there is a new periphery, Asia, but the same old core, the United States, with the same … interest. This image of the current system as Bretton Woods reborn also overlooks how the world has changed since the 1960s … resembling the Bretton Woods System, it is not long for this world …

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The U.S. Current Account Deficit : Gradual Correction or Abrupt Adjustment?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2006

In this paper I use a large multi-country data set to analyze the determinants of abrupt and large "current account reversals." The results from a variance-component probit model indicate that the probability of experiencing a major current account reversal is positively affected by larger...

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Sequencing of Reforms, Financial Globalization, and Macroeconomic Vulnerability

Edwards, Sebastian - 2008

I use a large cross country data set and panel probit analysis to investigate the way in which the interaction between trade and financial openness affect the probability of external crises. This analysis is related to debate on the adequate sequencing of reform. I also investigate the role...

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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and nonproduction workers. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technical change is measured by the shift towards high-technology capital such...

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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On Current Account Surpluses and the Correction of Global Imbalances

Edwards, Sebastian - 2007

realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … resolution of global imbalances. This means that, even if there is a realignment of global growth, the world is likely to need …

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Exchange Rates in Emerging Economies : What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know?

Edwards, Sebastian - 1999

Exchange rates have been at the center of economic debates in emerging economies. Issues related to the feasibility of flexible exchange rates, the relationship between exchange rate volatility and growth, and the role of exchange rate overvaluation in recent crises, among other, have been...

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Testing the Melitz Model of Trade : An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2008

In this paper, we develop a simple empirical method to test two alternative versions of the Melitz (2003) model, one with global fixed export costs and one with bilateral fixed export costs. With global costs, import sales per product variety (relative to domestic sales per variety) are...

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Current Account Reversals : Always a Problem?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2005

and pre-World War I gold standard eras …

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