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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...

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Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility : How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2010

Alexander Swoboda is one of the originators of the bipolar view that capital mobility creates pressure for countries to abandon intermediate exchange rate arrangements in favor of greater flexibility and harder pegs. This paper takes another look at the evidence for this hypothesis using two...

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Was There Really an Earlier Period of International Financial Integration Comparable to Today?

Bordo, Michael D.; Eichengreen, Barry; Kim, Jongwoo - 2021

In this paper we reconsider the international market integration, starting at high levels in the late nineteenth century, collapsing between the wars, and recovering gradually after 1945 to reach levels comparable to pre-1914 in the 1990's. The empirical evidence we survey suggests that in some...

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Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods

Eichengreen, Barry - 2021

, with the spread of globalization, there is a new periphery, Asia, but the same old core, the United States, with the same … interest. This image of the current system as Bretton Woods reborn also overlooks how the world has changed since the 1960s … resembling the Bretton Woods System, it is not long for this world …

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The Role of History in Bilateral Trade Flows

Eichengreen, Barry; Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

This paper investigates the theory and evidence that history plays a role in shaping the direction of international trade. Because there are reasons to anticipate a positive correlation between the predominant direction of trade flows in the past and membership in preferential arrangements in...

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Trade and Trade Policy with Differentiated Products : A Chamberlinian-Ricardian Model: A Comment

Demidova, Svetlana A. - 2007

This paper shows that the results of Venables (1987) depend critically on the assumption that there are no fixed costs of trade. The introduction of fixed costs of exporting, while making the model more consistent with the empirical evidence, leads to the opposite conclusion that technological...

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Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders : Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?

Krishna, Kala - 2010

This paper considers the effects of trade policy--tariffs and quotas--when importing is done by competitive traders who are identical ex ante but differ ex post. We show that the standard equivalence results no longer hold and the conventional ranking of tariffs and quotas is turned on its head:...

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The Impact of China on the Exports of Other Asian Countries

Eichengreen, Barry; Rhee, Yeongseop; Tong, Hui - 2021

We analyze the impact of China's growth on the exports of other Asian countries. Our innovation is to distinguish the increase in China's demand for imports from its increased penetration of export markets. Using the gravity model, we disaggregate among commodity types and account for the...

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Trade, Investment, and Growth : Nexus, Analysis, and Prognosis

Krishna, Kala; Swanson, Norman R.; Ozyildirim, Ataman - 2021

This paper looks at the patterns of causation between income, export, import, and investment growth for 25 developing countries. Our approach differs from previous efforts in a number of ways. First, we examine each country individually in order to allow for complete heterogeneity and properly...

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Procompetitive Market Access

Krishna, Kala; Roy, Suddhasatwa; Thursby, Marie C. - 2022

The view that U.S. businesses are being unfairly hurt by barriers to access in foreign markets has raised demands for market access requirements (MARs) from within U.S. industry and government alike. We show that, contrary to the prevailing wisdom of the recent literature, MARs can be...

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