: the degree of equality of the income distribution; democratic institutions; export orientation (with higher propensities … to export manufactures, greater openness to FDI, and avoidance of exchange rate overvaluation favorable for durati …

exports. Using a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, we first find some suggestive evidence that … the elasticity of real manufacturing exports to the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) has decreased over time. We then … competitiveness of a fraction of the value of final good exports. In line with this intuition, we find evidence that GVC participation …

This paper investigates whether banking crises are associated with declines in bilateral exports. We first develop a … simple open economy model in which banking crises translate into negative liquidity shocks, leading to collapses in exports … developing countries, exports of manufactured goods are disproportionately hurt by banking crises and this negative effect is …

Recently, the export performance of France relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany …, deteriorated. That deterioration seems related to the geographical destination and product composition of trend exports. Faced with …

This paper studies the relationship between export structure and growth performance. We design an export recommendation … produce export portfolio recommendations covering over 190 economies and over 30 years. We find that economies with their … export structure more aligned with the recommended export structure achieve better growth performance, in terms of both …

Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative … flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of financial crises is less pronounced but more persistent in countries …

We update the widely used banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent … and ongoing crises, including updated information on policy responses and outcomes (i.e. fiscal costs, output losses, and … increases in public debt). We also update our dating of sovereign debt and currency crises. The database includes all systemic …

This paper presents new evidence on the behavior of saving in the world, by extending previous empirical research in …

investigate the transmission of a global financial crisis that originates from financial frictions in the rest of the world. We …