the WTO, its exports and export participation would have been 30 and 37 percent lower respectively …

anticipation effects, along with more conventional predictions, using a quasi-experiment in Tennessee schools. Performance improves …

, and an alternative which avoids potential bias arising from effect heterogeneity. Using data from Tennessee and Washington …

This paper considers how an international lender of last resort (LOLR) can prevent self-fulfilling banking and currency … crises in emerging economies. We compare two different arrangements: one in which the international LOLR injects liquidity … into international financial markets, and one in which its resources are used to back domestic banking safety nets. Both …

most to study franchisors' domestic and international operations, namely agency and internationalization theory, and use …

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 …

Now in prospect is a major revision of international bank capital regulations that would embody recent advances in …

falling but still high degree of localization has important implications for macroeconomics and growth, trade, and regional …