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How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2003
wisdom that globalization has increased the degree of synchronization of business cycles. The evidence that trade and …
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Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008
globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401282
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Debt build-up in frontier Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) since 2012 : global or country-specific factors and way forward?
De Soyres, Constance; Rogantini Picco, Anna; Sab, Randa - 2019
This paper focuses on the debt build-up that frontier low-income developing countries (LIDCs) have faced since 2012. First, it documents a 20-percentage point increase in the external and government debt-to-GDP ratios, a composition shift toward higher non-concessional debt, and a rise in...
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Trade and inclusive growth
Bacchetta, Marc; Cerra, Valerie; Piermartini, Roberta; … - 2021
This paper surveys the literature on the relationship between international trade and inclusive growth. It examines claims that the rise in inequality in many countries can be attributed to the concurrent rise in trade competition, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518909
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International Transmission of Bank and Corporate Distress
N'Diaye, Papa M'B. P. - 2010
The paper evaluates how increases in banks’ and nonfinancial corporates’ default risk are transmitted in the global economy, using in a vector autoregression model for 30 advanced and emerging economies for the period from January 1996 to December 2008. The results point to two-way causality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402720
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Globalization and the Future of Social Protection
Tanzi, Vito - 2000
. This paper argues that globalization will affect governments’ ability to continue providing this social protection at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399941
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How Has the Globalization of Labor Affected the Labor Income Share in Advanced Countries?
Jaumotte, Florence - 2007
Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China …, India and the former Eastern bloc into the world trading system, the removal of restrictions on trade and capital flows, and … globalization, technological progress, and labor market policies to the decline in the labor share. The results, obtained for 18 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401060
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On the Viability of Conditional Assistance Programs
Mayer, Wolfgang - 2005
Economic adjustment and reform programs, including those supported by international financial institutions (IFIs), must cope with informational asymmetries and special interest politics. This presents a particularly serious issue when IFIs make structural economic reforms a condition for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400737
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How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? : Patterns and Channels
Terrones, Marco - 2007
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international … outcomes during the recent period of globalization. Developing countries have, by and large, been shut out of this benefit. The … why emerging markets have not been able to realize this presumed benefit of financial globalization. In particular, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400319
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Developing Countries and the Globalization of Financial Markets
Knight, Malcolm D. - 1998
This paper analyzes the impact of the globalization of financial markets on developing and transition economies …
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