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Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

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WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes

Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2016

implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well …

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A cross-country empirical analysis of international reserves

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Itō, Hiro - 2009

Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...

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Commodity price effects on currencies

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Wang, Wenhao - 2022

Using quarterly data on four commodity exporting countries, we study the explanatory power of real commodity prices for predicting real effective exchange rates, with special attention to the separate roles of different sectoral commodity prices during alternative time periods. We find that the...

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