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estimated at about 40 percent of world trade. The same has not been true for developing country members, although those that …
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China’s high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country’s large current account …
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Continental trade blocs are emerging in many parts of the world almost in tandem. If trade blocs are required to … reduction of trade barriers against non-member countries. That may not be politically feasible. On the other hand, in a world of …
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This paper studies the role of insider trading in explaining cross-country differences in stock market volatility. The central finding is that countries with more prevalent insider trading have more volatile stock markets, even after one controls for liquidity/maturity of the market and the...
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very disaggregated goods (e.g., light bulbs) in 83 cities around the world during 1990-2000. We find that the impact of an …
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The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels and with a variety of apparently conflicting results. For instance, there is still little robust evidence of the growth benefits of broad...
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Does country ""transparency"" affect international portfolio investment? We examine this and related questions using a unique micro dataset on international portfolio holdings. We employ various indices of government and corporate transparency, focusing on the availability and quality of...
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The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
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China's exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the … different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to the rising export sophistication. Somewhat … overlap in the export structure between China and high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human capital and government …
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Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China … regions and sectors. By our calculation, if China succeeds in allocating its capital more efficiently, it could reduce its …
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