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Mitchell, Donald O. - 2008

"The rapid rise in food prices has been a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their household incomes on food. This paper examines the factors behind the rapid increase in internationally traded food prices since 2002 and estimates the contribution of various...

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Tango with the gringo : the hard peg and real misalignment in argentina

Serven, Luis - 2004

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Does higher openness cause more real exchange rate volatility ?

Calderón, César - 2009

exchange rate volatility, and (b) trade and financial openness may have a potential role of mitigating and/or amplifying real … openness to exacerbate or mitigate real exchange rate volatility. The authors collected information on the real effective …) High real exchange rate volatility is the result of highly volatile productivity shocks, and sharp oscillations in monetary …

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Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust

World Bank - 2016

The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies overthe past six months. It also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Lebanon. It places them in a longer-term and global context, and assesses the implications of these developments and other...

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Is there room for foreign exchange interventions under an inflation targeting framework? : Evidence from Mexico and Turkey

Domaç, Ilker - 2004

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Determinants of economic growth : a Bayesian panel data approach

Moral-Benito, Enrique - 2009

"Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country, cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to address the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...

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Optimal pre-merger notification mechanisms : incentives and efficiency of mandatory and voluntary schemes

Rodríguez González, Aldo Javier - 2009

"The authors compare the two merger control systems currently employed worldwide: a mandatory system based on merger size threshold and a voluntary system with ex-post monitoring and fines. The voluntary system possesses two informational advantages: (i) the enforcement agency employs more...

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Korea : policy-issues for long-term development ; the report of a mission sent to the Republic of Korea by the World Bank

Hasan, Parvez (contributor); Rao, D. C. (contributor) - 1979

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The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009

"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed based on industry-specific research and development...

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Firms' environmental performance : does news matter ?

Nlandu Mamingi (contributor) - 2006

"The empirical literature on environmental performance or compliance has followed two strands: one based on the impact of formal regulation as a means of inducing better environmental performance, and another centered on the role of informal regulation which mainly emphasizes the role of...

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