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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021
less clear, but this masks an important and novel result. We find strong evidence that FDI and portfolio equity liabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325040
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Globalization and Social Change : Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2017
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962291
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Financial Liberalization and the Relationship-Specificity of Exports
Defever, Fabrice - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980‐1997 on sectoral export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079160
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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications … direct investment and portfolio equity liabilities compared to those for debt liabilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160313
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131927
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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2021
of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315031
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153171
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How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship between Growth and Volatility
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021
the context of globalization - a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318610
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136951
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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy : Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
Pflüger, Michael - 2011
The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118266