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Antkiewicz, Agata (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

implemented over the next few years. Along with extensive bilateral investment treaties, mutual recognition agreements, and other …

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Contesting an international trade agreement

Cole, Matthew T.; Lake, James; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2018

We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a "parallel contest", that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each other...

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The impact of Basel III on trade finance : the potential unintended consequences of the leverage ratio

Auboin, Marc; Blengini, Isabella - 2014

Trade finance, particularly in the form of short-term letters of credit has received favourable capital treatment new Basel III rules. However, concerns have been expressed over the potential negative "unintended consequences" of the newly created leverage ratio for trade. This paper offers a...

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Why do trade finance gaps persist : does it matter for trade and development

Auboin, Marc; DiCaprio, Alisa - 2017

investment within global supply chains. …

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Trade costs, trade balances and current accounts : an application of gravity to multilateral trade

Fazio, Giorgio (contributor); MacDonald, Ronald (contributor) - 2005

In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...

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Trade and investment in the global economy

Anderson, James E.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017

We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology … actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …

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The politics of IMF forecasts

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Marchesi, Silvia (contributor); … - 2007

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Buying votes and international organizations : the dirty work-hypothesis

Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin; Rosendorff, B. Peter; … - 2018

We show how major shareholders can exploit their power over international organizations to hide their foreign-policy interventions from domestic audiences. We argue that major powers exert influence bilaterally when domestic audiences view the intervention favorably. When domestic audiences are...

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The political economy of international organizations

Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin - 2016

We review the literature on the political economy of international organizations (IOs). Considering IOs as products of the preferences of various actors rather than monolithic entities we focus on national politicians, international bureaucrats, interest groups, and voters. By looking into the...

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IMF surveillance and financial markets : a political economy analysis

Fratzscher, Marcel; Reynaud, Julien - 2010

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...

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