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We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks have become the largest cross-border creditors for almost half of all emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Their global reach resembles that of banks from advanced...
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This paper finds convergence of real per capita GDP in Mexico’s states and regions during the period of higher average national per capita growth (1970-85), and divergence during the lower-growth period (1985-93). These results hold across states and regions and within regions. The poorest...
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We present and discuss a set of indicators to help assess countries' trade policies. The indicators relate to three policy areas - trade in goods, trade in services, and FDI. Given concerns about the direction of global trade policy, we also consider a set of more granular measures that reflect...
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We examine how Korea’s capital flows and trade have been affected by the quantitative easing (QE) of the United States and the quantitative and qualitative easing (QQME) of Japan. Korea is an intriguing case due to its borderline position between advanced and emerging market country groups,...
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We examine the relationship between Japanese FDI outflows, domestic and foreign fixed investment, and the exchange rate. The results indicate that aggregate FDI outflows have been driven by investment in Japan and the exchange rate, while the geographic distribution of such investment has been...
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that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in inland provinces. In these regions, private … existing trends continue, valuable resources could be wasted at a time when China’s ability to finance investment is facing … to that in manufacturing and real estate. Financial reform would facilitate such a reorientation, helping China to …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and GDP in China using … both aggregate and provincial data. The Kuznets elasticity is about 0.6 for China, higher than that in advanced countries … as China has become richer. Further evidence of this comes from provincial data: richer provinces tend to have smaller …
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The paper models international spillovers from a hypothetical drop of China's imports as a result of China … shock, which are largely unaccounted for in the existing literature. Such effects include direct spillovers from China on … its trading partners, subsequent spillins among them, and spillbacks on China itself. The paper finds that the network …
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