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theory-based measures for production networks from a multi-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages to analyze the …, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … and for about 7% of the decline in this figure on the world level as observed between 2000 and 2007. Furthermore, our …
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rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …
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Government is often considered the safe sector of an open economy that provides households with insurance against external risk exposure. Among highly integrated economies, however, households should be able to exploit common financial markets to insure themselves. In this paper we examine the...
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This study reconsiders the well-known cross-country positive association between prices and income by focusing on heterogeneity between the inter-developed-country and inter-developing-country relationships. Empirical results reveal not only that developed and developing countries differ in...
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America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …
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We study the differences of currency misalignment estimates obtained from alternative datasets derived from two International Comparison Program (ICP) surveys. A decomposition exercise reveals that the year 2005 misalignment estimates are substantially affected by the ICP price revision....
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Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...
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segmented diverse countries around the world. The information it conveys is better characterized as the extent of the economic …
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Even though external debt can play a buffer role against adverse shocks to assist consumption smoothing, it may also exert a volatility amplifying effect, depending on the currency of denomination and the cyclicality of the borrower’s exchange rate. We empirically investigate the nexus between...
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