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What is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? Some have observed an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and measures of environmental quality. But this could be due to endogeneity of trade, rather than causality. This paper uses exogenous...
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Gravity-based cross-sectional evidence indicates that currency unions stimulate trade; cross-sectional evidence indicates that trade stimulates output. This paper estimates the effect that currency union has, via trade, on output per capita. We use economic and geographic data for over 200...
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Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical …
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Globalization of trade and finance has gone a long way over the last half-century. But it is less impressive than most … international integration. The paper documents the extent of globalization, and some reasons for the barriers that remains. It then … environment. The conclusion is that globalization is not the primary obstacle to efforts to address such concerns …
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A country's suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity of trade with other potential members of the currency union, and the extent to which domestic business cycles are correlated with those of the other...
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