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Asia and China made disproportionate contributions to the slowdown of global trade growth in 2015. China's import …'s rebalancing are estimated for some 60 countries using value-added trade data, and are found to be more negative on Asia and …
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developing Asia, have strengthened economic links between the Far East and Saudi Arabia. Second, financial sector development in … developing Asia’s growth cycle for the Saudi economy, while the latter suggests greater influence of U.S. monetary policy on the … non-oil economy through the peg to the U.S dollar. As a result, divergence between the growth cycles in developing Asia …
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What are the constraints that have stalled EMs efforts to reuse their securities in international financial centers? We discuss the economics of collateral re-use and the present institutional structure in Asian and Latin American countries. Our empirical investigation suggests pledgeability...
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This paper examines a country''s incentives for intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in a global trading environment. There is a time inconsistency problem intrinsic to IPR protection: ex ante strong protection is warranted to promote innovation, but once discovery takes place there is...
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Over the last two decades, world trade and production have become increasingly organized around global value chains (GVC). Recent theoretical work has shown that countries can benefit from participation in GVCs through multiple channels. However, little is known empirically about the economic...
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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...
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trade might be called the ""missing globalization puzzle."" This puzzle is most apparent in the estimated distance … evidence of globalization, on both cross-section and panel data, reflected in a variety of measures of geography. Our …
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The Gulf of Guinea''s tremendous potential is creating investment opportunities for the region. Some of its resources, such as oil, minerals, and forests, continue to attract significant investments whereas others, like natural gas, could be exploited to their full potential if necessary...
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