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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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primary schooling and literacy revolution in Europe. Under what conditions would we expect the same responses to globalization … abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in …
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global economy. It builds on the models of Davis (1997a, b) of trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid wage Europe …
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the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …
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history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would … populist politicians highlight. The first has been predominant in Latin America, and the second in Europe. I argue that these … different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks …
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In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...
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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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