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This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of European nations with access to the Atlantic, and especially by those nations that engaged in colonialism and long distance oceanic trade. Moreover, Atlantic ports grew much...
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International trade can have profound effects on domestic institutions. We examine this proposition in the context of medieval Venice circa 800-1350. We show that (initially exogenous) increases in long-distance trade enriched a large group of merchants and these merchants used their new-found...
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trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some useful empirical studies have been conducted. The target we are …
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We study the implications of global supply chains for the design of monetary policy, using a small-open economy New Keynesian model with multiple stages of production. Within the family of simple monetary policy rules with commitment, a rule that targets separate producer price inflation at...
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Common wisdom dictates that uncertainty impedes trade--we show that uncertainty can fuel more trade in a simple general equilibrium trade model with information frictions. In equilibrium, increases in uncertainty increase both the mean and the variance in returns to exporting implying that trade...
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model to study the behavior of labor markets in response to globalization shocks, including shocks to technology, trade … quantitatively the short- and long-run implications of globalization shocks for labor reallocation and unemployment dynamics. In a … 2.2% gain in response to globalization shocks. These gains would have been 73% larger in the absence of the global …
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Post WWII globalization forces are facing headwinds in the form of global crises-the "The Great Recession" and the "The … Pandemic Recession". Israel's trade and financial globalization, however, is steadily rising. The pandemic-induced slump in …. The paper provides an overview of the new globalization trends in the world and in Israel, with emphasis on the role of …
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Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...
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Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
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