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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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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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Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?
Bordo, Michael D.; Eichengreen, Barry; Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021
for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214589
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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