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What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of...
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International trade became much less multilateral during the 1930s. Previous studies, looking at aggregate trade flows, have argued that discriminatory trade policies had comparatively little to do with this. Using highly disaggregated information on the UK's imports and trade policies, we find...
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Regional trade in South America since independence has long been much smaller than would be expected if geography were the only constraint on trade. Several potential explanations exist: low technological and demand complementarities; low productivity; high natural and policy barriers to trade....
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Existing theories of pre-emptive war typically predict that the leading country may choose to launch a war on a follower who is catching up, since the follower cannot credibly commit to not use their increased power in the future. But it was Japan who launched a war against the West in 1941, not...
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"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others … will free- ride on the cutthroat incentives of the leaders and choose a more "cuddly" form of capitalism. Paradoxically … equilibrium, it is not a best response for the cutthroat capitalists to switch to a more cuddly form of capitalism. We also show …
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effects of the monetary policies of the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and of the People's Bank of China on the …
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1980s, and, despite China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, changed little throughout the late … the trade growth that followed China's WTO accession was a delayed response to previous reforms rather than a response to …
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The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
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This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
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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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