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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind; Trebbi, Francesco - 2021

world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …

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Hausmann, Ricardo; Pritchett, Lant; Rodrik, Dani - 2022

Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be...

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Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth

McMillan, Margaret - 2011

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to high-productivity activities are a key driver of...

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Trade Policy and Economic Growth : a Skeptic'S Guide to Cross-National Evidence

Rodriguez, Francisco; Rodrik, Dani - 2021

Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...

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Foreign Trade in Eastern Europe'S Transition : Early Results

Rodrik, Dani - 2021

By the end of 1991, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland have achieved a substantial degree of openness to foreign trade. In all three countries, trade is now de-monopolized and licensing and quotas playa very small role. Exchange controls have virtually disappeared for current-account...

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Industrial Organization and Product Quality : Evidence from South Korean and Taiwanese Exports

Rodrik, Dani - 2021

The central focus of this paper is on the relationship between domestic market structure and export performance. It evaluates the hypothesis that more concentrated industrial sectors can achieve more easily the transition from standardized, labor-intensive manufactures to sophisticated, skill...

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Making Sense of the Soviet Trade Shock in Eastern Europe : a Framework and Some Estimates

Rodrik, Dani - 2021

Eastern European countries have experienced sharp declines in real GDP since 1990. One of the reasons for this decline is the Soviet trade shock, deriving from the collapse of the CMEA and of traditional export markets in the Soviet Union. This paper is an attempt to quantify the magnitude of...

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Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and Monetary Policy

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2010

The paper argues that many of the exaggerated claims that globalization has been an important factor in lowering … inflation in recent years just do not hold up. Globalization does, however, have the potential to be stabilizing for individual … globalization on the monetary transmission mechanism and arrives at the following answers: (1) Has globalization led to a decline in …

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Is Financial Globalization Beneficial?

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2010

This lecture examines whether financial globalization is beneficial to developing countries by first examining the … to examine whether globalization, particularly of the financial kind, can help encourage financial and economic … development and argues that it can. However, financial globalization does not always work to encourage economic development …

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Monetary Policy Strategy : Lessons from the Crisis

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2011

This paper examines what we have learned and how we should change our thinking about monetary policy strategy in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. It starts with a discussion of where the science of monetary policy was before the crisis and how central banks viewed monetary policy...

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