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environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … pairwise interregional trade across all 50 U.S. states, 26 traded and non-traded industries, labor as a mobile factor, and … matches the U.S. input-output matrix. Using data on trade flows by industry between states, as well as other regional and …
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We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption. Our answer, inevitably, is mixed. On the one hand the fact that Poland is an outlier, credit-growth wise, accentuates the danger of a boom if one believes in mean reversion....
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discussion of monetary unification outside Europe. The cost-benefit trade-off of unification may differ substantially between …
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This Paper analyses the issues raised by EMU for the relationships between the Euro area and the international financial system. The depreciation of the Euro exchange rate since the beginning of EMU has attracted most attention. The Paper argues that theory and the data support none of the...
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This paper assesses whether the international monetary system is already tri-polar and centred around the US dollar, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s" dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the renminbi is already the dominant currency in Asia, exerting...
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We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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) bilateral trade openness reduces bilateral cultural distance; (ii) the more differentiated the products, the more trade reduces … cultural distance; (iii) trade openness has a lock-in effect on culture. Third, we test the model using an instrumental … bilateral trade openness translates into a 43% standard deviation decrease in bilateral cultural distance. …
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the period 1975-2005. In particular, it tests a) whether increases in trade lead to rising inequalities, b) whether these … inequalities recede in time, and c) whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing worlds differently. Using … static and dynamic panel data analysis, it is found that while increases in trade per se do not lead to greater territorial …
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-driven and the decision to serve foreign countries via exports or FDI depends on a proximity-concentration trade-off. We … characterize the joint patterns of trade and FDI when countries differ in income distribution and size and show that FDI is more …
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