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reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer …
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using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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cognition for respondents in two developing countries: China and Indonesia, both with very low educated elderly populations … by the rural-urban gradient. China has a stronger rural-urban gradient than Indonesia, which is associated with the hukou … differentials are smaller. The gender differential declines substantially, and the China-Indonesia differential disappears once we …
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We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...
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We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...
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competition from low-wage countries, especially China, laid the groundwork, but was not the catalyst for the reversal in attitudes … policy, export restrictions in particular, to halt China's technological development. The future of globalization is highly …
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In International Relations the canonical model of inter-estate interactions is a one-shot security competition game. The model has the structure of a prisoners dilemma, which results in an equilibrium with two sources of inefficiency: excessive arming and possibly the destruction associated with...
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We present an economic rationale for countries resorting to foreign influence to export their ideology to other nations. Our model incorporates two fundamental elements: redistribution of the tax burden between capital owners and workers, and international capital mobility. The model highlights...
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, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in …
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The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …
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