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Chile’s average economic growth between 1990 and 1998 was above 7 percent per year, more than double than in previous decades, and higher than in any other Latin American country in the same period. This paper assesses empirically the main hypotheses suggested in the literature about the...
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whether financial globalization has helped induce governments to pursue better macroeconomic policies (the ""discipline effect … robust causal evidence. There is some evidence that financial globalization may have induced countries to pursue low …
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This paper examines interactions between self-interested agents in a two-tier government hierarchy, consisting of a central authority and bureaucrats in a two-stage game, where the actions of agents affect private sector allocations. Conditions under which lower-tier corruption arises as an...
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Do foreign-educated individuals play a role in promoting democracy in their home countries? Despite the large amount of private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign-educated individuals foster democracy in their home countries. Using a...
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I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears as a rent-extracting technology in a democratic...
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A cross-country comparative analysis shows that there is substantial room for further integration of China into global …, notably the foreign exchange market. Even though the increased integration of China into international capital markets would … increase its exposure to the global financial cycle, the costs in terms of monetary autonomy would not be large given China …
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While China's growth gathered momentum in 2017, rebalancing was uneven and decelerated along many dimensions reflecting …
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, using local projections, the paper zooms in on shocks originating in the United States, Europe, and China. Our results …, Europe, and China reduces economic activity in the rest of the world, with the effects being mostly felt in Europe and the …
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, especially from EMEs like China, spurring trade tensions and protectionist measures. The paper investigates the conflicting …
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globalization hurt sectors where jobs are routinizable but helped others that require specialized skills. High-skilled professionals … share owing to globalization and the erosion of labor market safety nets …
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