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We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in … recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited … overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting tendencies: whereas trade globalization is associated with a reduction …
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China's equity markets internationalization process started in the early 2000s but accelerated after 2012, when Chinese firms' shares listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen gradually became available to international investors. This paper studies the effects of the post-2012 internationalization events...
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Regional integration of Pacific Island countries (PICs) with Australia, New Zealand, and emerging Asia has increased over the last two decades. PICs have become more exposed to the region's business cycles, and spillovers from regional economies are more important for PICs than from advanced...
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While a carbon tax is widely acknowledged as an efficient policy to mitigate climate change, adoption has lagged. Part of the challenge resides in the distributional implications of a carbon tax and a belief that it tends to be regressive. Even when not regressive, poor households could be hurt...
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Large reductions in global emissions are needed for the world to be on track to meet global temperature goals. Asia-Pacific countries have a critical role in emissions reduction given their large and rising share in global emissions. This paper discusses the main opportunities and behavioral...
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In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA -- III. ECONOMETRIC PRELIMINARIES -- IV. "INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS" REVISITED -- V. INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A: ALTERNATIVE SPECIFICATION -- APPENDIX B: DATA SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS --...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE MAIN STYLIZED FACTS: AGGREGATE DATA -- III. THE MAIN STYLIZED FACTS: BILATERAL DATA -- IV. CAPITAL FLOWS AND EXTERNAL ADJUSTMENT -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES.
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BEHAVIOR OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF FINANCIAL FLOWS -- III. BEHAVIOR DURING SUDDEN STOPS IN FINANCIAL FLOWS -- IV. CONCLUSIONS AND POSSIBLE EXTENSIONS -- REFERENCES.
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