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Multinational Production and Global Shock Propagation During the Great Recession
Li, Haishi - 2023
Did multinational production (MP) exacerbate or mitigate the collapse of international trade during the Great Recession? What role did MP and trade links play in propagating economic shocks across countries? I resolve the “Multinationals’ Resilience Puzzle” during the Great Recession by...
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Economic Globalisation and Africa's Quest for Greener and More Inclusive Growth : The Missing Link
Ofori, Isaac K; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2023
This study examines the contingency and threshold effects of economic freedom in the economic globalisation (EG) and inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable...
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Protectionism and Economic Growth : Causal Evidence from the First Era of Globalization
Potrafke, Niklas; Ruthardt, Fabian; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021
We investigate how protectionist policies influence short-run economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. The...
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Financial integration, globalization, and real activity
De Nicolò, Gianni; Juvenal, Luciana - 2012
distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: (a) financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; (c) both advances in financial integration and globalization are … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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Does financial integration spur economic growth? : New evidence from the first era of financial globalization
Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M. - 2006
Does international financial integration boost economic growth? The question has been discussed controversially for a long time. As of yet, robust evidence for a positive impact is lacking (Edison et al., 2002). However, there is substantial narrative evidence from economic history that...
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Modigliani Meets Minsky : Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016
Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020
This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and financial fragility. We exploit a new household-level dataset that covers the joint distributions of debt, income, and wealth in the United States over the past seven decades. The...
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Exposure to the COVID-19 Stock Market Crash and its Effect on Household Expectations
Hanspal, Tobin - 2020
We survey a representative sample of US households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age, desired working hours, and household debt, but have...
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Contagion of Fear
Mitchener, Kris James - 2020
The Great Depression is infamous for banking panics, which were a symptomatic of a phenomenon that scholars have labeled a contagion of fear. Using geocoded, microdata on bank distress, we develop metrics that illuminate the incidence of these events and how banks that remained in operation...
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Contagion Testing in Embryonic Markets Under Alternative Stressful US Market Scenarios
R. Mahadeo, Scott M. - 2020
We consolidate alternative ways for identifying stable and stressful scenarios in the S&P 500 market to construct contagion tests for recipient markets vulnerable to disturbances from this source market. The S&P 500 is decomposed into discrete conditions of: (1) Tranquil versus turbulent...
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Fiscal Sustainability in the EU after the Global Crisis : Is There Any Progress?
Wysocki, Maciej - 2018
In response to the global crisis a number of new institutional measures have been introduced in the fiscal framework, both on the UE and on the member states’ level, and the question is: have these measures provided better fiscal sustainability outcomes? We approach this question by looking at...
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