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The long history of sovereign debt and the associated enforcement problem have attracted researchers in many fields. In this paper, we survey empirical work by economists, historians, and political scientists. As we review the empirical literature, we emphasize parallel developments in the...
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frictions. Under perfect within-country factor mobility, the gains to the rest of the world from trade integration of emerging … relatively little to the aggregate gains, but has large distributional effects. The aggregate gains to the rest of the world are …
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We provide a tractable theory of innovation and technology diffusion to explore the role of international trade in the process of development. We model innovation and diffusion as a process involving the combination of new ideas with insights from other industries or countries. We provide...
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We use matched, bank-level panel data on Libor submissions and credit default swaps to decompose bank-funding spreads at several maturities into components reflecting counterparty credit risk and funding-market liquidity. To account for the possibility that banks may strategically misreport...
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The Great Migration significantly increased the number of African Americans moving to northern and western cities beginning in the first half of the twentieth century. We show that their arrival shaped “slum clearance” and urban redevelopment efforts in receiving cities. To estimate the...
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We use a panel of historical patent data covering a large range of countries over the past century to study the evolution of innovation across time and space and its effect on productivity. We document a substantial rise of international knowledge spillovers as measured by patent citations since...
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Services, which are less traded than goods, rose from 58 percent of world expenditure in 1970 to 79 percent in 2015 … consumption has affected trade. Without structural change, we find that the world trade to GDP ratio would be 15 percentage points … in trade costs, ongoing structural change implies that world trade as a share of GDP would eventually decline. Going …
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The financialization view is that increased trading in commodity futures markets is associated with increases in the growth rate and volatility of commodity spot prices. This view gained credence because in the 2000s trading volume increased sharply and many commodity prices rose and became more...
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Structural change involves a broad set of trends: (i) sectoral reallocations, (ii) rich movements of productive activities between home and market, and (iii) an increase in the scale of productive units. After extending these facts, we develop a model to explain them within a unified framework....
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negotiation, formation, and rules of international trade agreements. Among other changes, China's 2001 accession to the World … explanations for these puzzling results as well as potential implications for the sustainability of the rules of the world trading …
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