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Industrialization under medieval conditions? : global development after COVID-19

Naudé, Wim - 2020

the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …

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Health aid, governance and infant mortality

Doucouliagos, Chris; Hennessy, Jack; Mallick, Debdulal - 2019

We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...

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Lives and livelihoods: estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...

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This time it's different: the role of women's employment in a pandemic recession

Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; … - 2020

In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue...

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...

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Global macro-financial cycles and spillovers

Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Otrok, Christopher M.; … - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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The determinants of China's international portfolio equity allocations

Agarwal, Isha; Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2020

We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows has shifted from accumulation of foreign exchange reserves by the central bank to nonofficial outflows. Unlocking the enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant...

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The effect of outside temperature on criminal court sentencing decisions

Evans, Sally; Siminski, Peter - 2020

Climate change has stimulated growing interest in the influence of temperature on cognition, mood and decision making. This paper is the first investigation of the impact of temperature on the outcomes of criminal court cases. It is motivated by Heyes and Saberian (2019, AEJ: Applied Economics),...

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Globalization, government popularity, and the great skill divide and the great skill divide

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Guriev, Sergej; Treisman, Daniel - 2020

How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...

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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world

Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020

Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective, reducing the level of actual redistribution across...

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