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Factor Endowments, Technology, Capital Mobility and the Sources of Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing

Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2016

Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...

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Effects of Income Inequality on Aggregate Output

Brückner, Markus - 2015

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Is the WTO Passï¿½?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

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The GATT's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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What's Left for the WTO?

Bown, Chad P. - 2015

Suppose that when addressing the question of "what's left for the WTO?," tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...

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Stages of development of payment systems : leapfrogging across countries and MENA's place in the world

Gévaudan, Clément; Lederman, Daniel - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...

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Open and Nimble : Finding Stable Growth in Small Economies

Lederman, Daniel - 2017

Does economic size matter for economic development outcomes? If so are current policies adequately addressing the role of size in the development process? Using working age population as a proxy for country size, Open and Nimble, systematically analyzes what makes small economies unique. Small...

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Three macroeconomic trends around the onset of armed conflict in developing economies

Lederman, Daniel; Rojas, Claudio J. - 2018

cover episodes of conflict from around the world and study the evolution of these variables during the five years prior to …

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Inequality and economic growth : the role of initial income

Brückner, Markus; Lederman, Daniel - 2018

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …

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