exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of …

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …

explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … derive sharp predictions concerning how key factors which shape a country's business and trade environment impact on the …

issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the … opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost … in the net fiscal impact of trade relative to immigration, and changes in the median voter. The paper also offers …

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level … of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …