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economic leadership has heated up, with risks of decoupling that could set back trade and growth and hinder the recovery from …
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The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50 percent of variation in exports is along the...
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growth gains the Tunisian economy could attain following services liberalization. Surprisingly, the goods sector is the one …
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How important is foreign knowledge for domestic innovation outcomes? How is this relation shaped by globalization and the attendant intensification of international competition? Our empirical approach extends the previous literature by analyzing a large panel comprising industries in both...
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How can governments reduce the prevalence of cross-border tax fraud? This paper argues that the use of digital technologies offers an opportunity to reduce fraud and increase government revenue. Using data on intra-EU and world trade transactions, we present evidence that (i) cross-border trade...
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relationship between trade and inequality. Does this reflect a causalrelationship? We adopt the Frankel and Romer (1999 … and inequality. Our cross-country estimates for trade's impact on real income areconsistently positive and significant … inequality.Heeding previous concerns in the literature (e.g. Rodriguez and Rodrik, 2001; Rodrik,Subramanian and Trebbi, 2004), we …
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undermining potential growth. This paper examines the impact of structural reforms in the energy sector (electricity and gas) on … enviromental outcomes and green growth indicators in a panel of 25 advanced economies during the period 1970-2020. We obtain …-friendly energy reforms leading to better environmental outcomes and green growth in countries with stronger environmental regulations …
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We posit that the relationship between income inequality and economic growth ismediated by the level of equality of … mobility to confirm that thenegative impact of income inequality on growth is higher the lower is intergenerationalmobility … future growth disproportionately. We use several recently developedinternationally comparable measures of intergenerational …
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Inclusive growth, narrowly defined in this paper as growth that helps reduce inequality, is achieved if consumption of …
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This study analyzes composition of goods trade in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) along four main dimensions: revealed comparative advantage, product complexity, sophistication, and diversification. After describing some key trade patterns over the last half century, it compares the...
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