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We construct the World Uncertainty Index (WUI) for an unbalanced panel of 143 individual countries on a quarterly basis …. Globally, the Index spikes around major events like the Gulf War, the Euro debt crisis, the Brexit vote and the COVID pandemic …
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respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and the labor market components of the economic … countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum) …
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The standard source for pre-WWII global freight rate trends is the Isserlis British tramp shipping index. We think it … the precipitous decline in nominal freight rates before the World War I, but it also extends the series to the 1940s …. Furthermore, our new series is linked to the post-World War II era (documented by David Hummels), so that we can be more precise …
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Building on Baker, Bloom and Davis (2016), I construct a monthly index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty (GEPU …) from January 1997. The GEPU Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 16 countries that account for two …-thirds of global output. Each national EPU index reflects the relative frequency of own-country newspaper articles that contain …
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have real rates fallen? This note computes a measure of the "world" real interest rate and, where possible, a measure of … the implied future real rate. It also makes public our estimates of the "world" real interest rate so they can be used by …
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We assemble a new global database on motor vehicle travel speed in over 1,200 large cities in 152 countries. We then estimate comparable city-level indices of travel speed and congestion. Most of the variation in urban travel speed is across countries, not within. National income per capita...
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A gravity model is used to assess the separate effects of exchange rate volatility and currency unions on international trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years spanning 1970 through 1990 for 186 countries. In this data set, there are over one hundred...
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labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that …
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How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...
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