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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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the relative role of 'globalization' and 'technology' shocks in accounting for the short and long run variance of global …
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wisdom that globalization has increased the degree of synchronization of business cycles. The evidence that trade and …
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This paper highlights the increased dispersion in net external positions in recent years, particularly among industrial countries. It provides a simple accounting framework that disentangles the factors driving the accumulation of external assets and liabilities (such as trade imbalances,...
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. Furthermore, the decomposition of aggregate BC comovement shows that the increase in trade with China has contributed the most to …. These findings suggest that the Korean economy can be significantly affected by a few countries that are highly linked …
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, including the United States, to China and ROW. In addition, the share of China in East Asia’s final demand, especially … investment, rose sharply while that of Japan fell. On the supply side, the paper documents the rise of China into a “global … factory” and the steady shift in regional production and integration from Japan and the United States to China …
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This paper analyzes the role of regional arrangements in trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) performance in the Baltics. While progress with transition is a key determinant of trade and FDI performance, regional arrangements with Western Europe have helped develop trade and transfer of...
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Using the international input-output tables between Japan and five Pacific Basin countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand) for the years 1975 and 1985, the paper examines the trade structure in 1975 and how it had shifted by 1985. It shows that intra-industry trade in...
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Pacific island countries are highly vulnerable to various natural disasters which are destructive, unpredictable and occur frequently. The frequency and scale of these shocks heightens the importance of medium-term economic and fiscal planning to minimize the adverse impact of disasters on...
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