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This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP growth rates of importing countries play an important...
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This paper investigates dynamic conditional correlations between stock and REIT markets in both Turkey and the U.S. We use an Asymmetric DCC - GJR - GARCH model to estimate the dynamic conditional correlation at daily, weekly, and monthly frequencies. Our contribution is threefold. First, we...
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. In the longer run, however, a trade-off between diversification and climate action emerges. We derive the optimal carbon …
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Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of … Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … production possibilities to illuminate the possible contribution of diversification to economic and social development in …
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system. Given this backdrop, this study introduces a new measure of energy diversification. It explores its impact on … economic growth with increasing long-run energy diversification. However, some countries (OECD and G20) experience negative … economic growth due to energy diversification in the short term. The results also disclosed that energy diversification does …
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. Based on an overinvestment framework, we show that in the prevailing asymmetric world monetary system, monetary policies of …
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In our article we review the secular stagnation hypothesis, firstly postulated by Hansen (1939), to describe the current macroeconomic dynamics faced by developed economies. Based in the existing literature, we elaborate on a workable definition of secular stagnation founded on four pillars:...
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Trade finance shortfalls now appear regularly. Does this matter for trade expansion and economic development in developing countries? Global trade finance has resumed following the 2009 global financial crisis. However, the pattern of recovery has been uneven across countries and categories of...
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Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...
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large parts of the world. In this paper we explore the financial and the trade channel in a unified framework and quantify …
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