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Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization
Jacks, David S.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Novy, Dennis - 2021
What drives globalization today and in the past? We employ a new micro-founded measure of bilateral trade costs based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224437
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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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Trade Booms, Trade Busts, and Trade Costs
Jacks, David S. - 2010
, Europe, and Oceania for the period from 1870 to 2000 and demonstrate an overriding role for declining trade costs in the pre-World … War I trade boom. In contrast, for the post-World War II trade boom we identify changes in output as the dominant force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151143
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Foreign Affiliate Sales and Trade in Both Goods and Services
Chunding, Li - 2010
(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139148
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Linking External Sector Imbalances and Changing Financial Instability Before the 2008 Financial Crisis
Whalley, John - 2011
supplies over all countries as a group relative to gross world product. This, in turn, is an indication of increasing severity … imbalances relative to GDP than in 2008 for considerable periods of time and with no financial implosion (UK in the pre World War …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117566
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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments
Dong, Yan - 2014
This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical … increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070430
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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind; Trebbi, Francesco - 2021
world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224849
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Growth Accelerations
Hausmann, Ricardo; Pritchett, Lant; Rodrik, Dani - 2022
Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, we focus on turning points in growth performance. We look for instances of rapid acceleration in economic growth that are sustained for at least eight years and identify more than 80 such episodes since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321621
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212584
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 2021
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234937