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Banking across borders : are Chinese banks different?

Cerutti, Eugenio M.; Koch, Cathérine; Pradhan, Swapan-Kumar - 2020

, bilateral economic interactions like trade, FDI and portfolio investment, positively correlate with lending. Chinese banks …' lending to EMDEs also strongly correlates with trade, but not with FDI and, unlike other banks, it correlates negatively with …

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The Role of Information in Driving FDI Flows : Host-Country Transparency and Source-Country Specialization

Razin, Assaf - 2003

We develop a simple information-based model of FDI flows. On the one hand, the abundance of ""intangible"" capital in … countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other hand, host-country corporate-transparency diminishes the value of this expertise …, thereby reducing the flow of FDI. Empirical evidence (from a sample of 9 source countries and 13 host countries over the 1980s …

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Remittances in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia : the gravity model

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2020

Remitances are an important source of external financing in low- and middle-income countries. This paper uses the gravity model to analyze remittance flows in Russia and Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries. Standard gravity determinants, such as GDP in sending and recieiving countries,...

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New insights into ECCU's tourism sector competitiveness

Ghazanchyan, Manuk; Zhao, Li; Brito, Steve; Parlak, Vivian - 2019

Tourism has become the main driver of economic growth and employment and the most important source of income in the ECCU. Preserving and, possibly, enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism product is key for these countries. Unfortunately, the evidence shows that tourism arrivals to the ECCU...

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Going viral : a gravity model of infectious diseases and tourism flows

Cevik, Serhan - 2020

This paper develops a gravity model framework to estimate the impact of infectious diseases on bilateral tourism flows among 38,184 pairs of countries over the period 1995-2017. The results confirm that international tourism is adversely affected by disease risk, and the magnitude of this...

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Barriers to trade in financial and insurance services : evidence from the United Kingdom

Podpiera, Jiří - 2021

Distance, as a proxy for trade barriers, is found in many studies to matter even for weightless cross-border financial investments and lending, possibly due to the presence of information asymmetries. Its importance is tested in this paper using exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s...

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Regional labor mobility in Finland

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2018

This paper analyzes regional labor mobility in Finland using two complementary empirical approaches: a VAR proposed by Blanchard and Katz (1992) and a gravity model. The results point to a relatively limited regional labor mobility in Finland compared to the U.S. and to EU peers. The limited...

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Export Spillovers from Global Shocks for the Middle East and Central Asia

Behar, Alberto - 2014

This paper quantifies the effect of realized and potential global growth disappointments on export volumes from the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Estimates of export elasticities with respect to trading partner GDP indicate non-oil export volumes are relatively...

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Determinants of International Tourism

Culiuc, Alexander - 2014

The paper estimates the impact of macroeconomic supply- and demand-side determinants of tourism, one of the largest components of services exports globally, and the backbone of many smaller economies. It applies the gravity model to a large dataset comprising the full universe of bilateral...

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Remittances and Vulnerability in Developing Countries

Bettin, Giulia - 2014

This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics, macroeconomic conditions, and adverse shocks in both source and recipient economies. We exploit a novel, rich panel data set, covering bilateral remittances from 103 Italian provinces to 107 developing...

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