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international product market linkages. We begin with a novel decomposition of the growth in countries' exports into the contribution …
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A large literature has documented an association between economic growth and export diversification. We study this question in France between 1836 and 1938. The period witnessed the onset of modern economic growth and sharp changes in the level of international competition. We use a new long...
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nonhomogeneous but nonmonotonic as well. We use the model as a basis for estimating Japanese and U.S. exports and DFI positions … around the world. Consistent with the theory we find that the importance of DFI relative to exports grows with population …, although, contrary to our theory, the elasticity of DFI, as well as exports, with respect to population is less than one. We …
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We study the instability of hyper-specialization of exports. We have two main findings. (1) Specializations are … emphasis on the nations where the exports originate. The high share of idiosyncratic variance (residual at the source …
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This paper sets out the political economy behind Asian governments' participation in a revived Bretton Woods System. The overriding problem for these governments is to rapidly integrate a large pool of underemployed labor into the industrial sector. The principal constraints are inefficient...
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fairly fast' Latin America growth during so much of the belle ‚poque. While booming relative prices of exports certainly …
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There is still disagreement among economists concerning how a country's international economic policies and its rate of economic growth interact, despite a number of multi-country case studies utilizing comparable analytical frameworks, numerous econometric studies using large cross-country data...
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We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
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its success in manufacturing exports, natural resource imports and RMB internationalization. Using micro-level project …
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This paper provides an overview of Chinese financial and trade integration in recent decades, and the challenges facing China in the coming years. China had been a prime example of exported growth, benefiting from learning by doing, and by adopting foreign know-how, supported by a complex...
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