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Global Macroeconomic and Financial Supervision : Where Next?
Goodhart, Charles - 2013
The overriding practical problem now is the tension between the global financial and market system and the national political and power structures. The main analytical short-coming lies in the failure to incorporate financial frictions, especially default, into our macro-economic models. Neither...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091914
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International Policy Coordination : The Long View
Eichengreen, Barry - 2013
This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091942
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Coping with Shocks and Shifts : The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2013
shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092123
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International Standards and International Trade : Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion
Clougherty, Joseph A. - 2014
Empirical scholarship on the standards-trade relationship has been held up due to methodological challenges: measurement, varied effects, and endogeneity. Considering the trade-effects of one particular standard (ISO 9000), we surmount methodological challenges by measuring standardization via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066003
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-Globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2014
bit more than half the world's countries experience declining CHB and rising TFP. The effects are big for the outliers. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069388
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-Up Growth?
Romer, Paul M. - 2014
Economists devote too much attention to international flows of goods and services and not enough to international flows of ideas. Traditional trade flows are an imperfect substitute for flows of the underlying ideas. The simplest textbook trade model shows that a welfare-enhancing move toward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070271
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Development, Structure, and Transformation : Some Evidence on Comparative Economic Growth
McCord, Gordon C. - 2013
We suggest that the geographical patterns of income differences across the world have deep underpinnings. We emphasize … characteristics of economies. Per capita incomes differ around the world in no small part because of sharp differences across regions … middle income; the distribution of economic activity around the world today; the patterns of growth between 1960 and 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074652
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The Global Productivity Slump : Common and Country-Specific Factors
Eichengreen, Barry - 2015
Productivity growth is slowing around the world. In 2014, according to the Conference Board's Total Economy Data Base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015545
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The Country Chronologies to Exchange Rate Arrangements into the 21st Century : Will the Anchor Currency Hold?
Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2017
Detailed country-by-country chronologies are an informative companion piece to our paper “Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century: Which Anchor Will Hold?,” which provides a comprehensive history of anchor or reference currencies, exchange rate arrangements, and a new measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963735
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Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century : Which Anchor Will Hold?
Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2017
. Our central finding is that the US dollar scores (by a wide margin) as the world's dominant anchor currency and, by some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963738