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Global Value Chains and Effective Exchange Rates at the Country-Sector Level

Patel, Nikhil - 2014

The real effective exchange rate (REER) is one of the most cited statistical constructs in open-economy macroeconomics. We show that the models used to compute these numbers are not rich enough to allow for the rising importance of global value chains. Moreover, because different sectors within...

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across …

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How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries

Helliwell, John F. - 2014

World Poll (2005–2012). We find that migrants tend to make social trust assessments that mainly reflect conditions in the …

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Globalization, Trade Imbalances and Labor Market Adjustment

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Pessoa, Joao Paulo; … - 2023

We argue that modeling trade imbalances is crucial to understanding transitional dynamics in response to globalization shocks. We build and estimate a general equilibrium, multi-country, multi-sector model of trade with two key ingredients: (a) endogenous trade imbalances arising from...

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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions

Nashashibi, Karim A. - 2021

In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...

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Globalization and Changing Patterns in the International Transmission of Shocks in Financial Markets

Bordo, Michael D.; Murshid, Antu Panini - 2021

of both advanced and emerging countries during two periods of globalization -- the pre-World War I classical gold …

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Why are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist than Others?

Mayda, Anna Maria; Rodrik, Dani - 2021

We analyze a rich cross-country data set that contains information on attitudes toward trade as well as a broad range of socio-demographic and other indicators. We find that pro-trade preferences are significantly and robustly correlated with an individual's level of human capital, in the manner...

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International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications

Barro, Robert J.; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2021

This paper presents a data set that improves the measurement of educational attainment for a broad group of countries. We extend our previous estimates of educational attainment for the population over age 15 and over age 25 up to 1995 and provide projections for 2000. We discuss the estimation...

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International Migration and World Development : A Historical Perspective

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

The 1920s marked the end of a century of mass migration from Europe to the New World. This paper examines analytically … overseas emigration from Europe chiefly from the mid 19th century to World War I. The second discussions the effects of these …, and second as they interacted with the evolution of world commodity and capital markets. The paper argues that the …

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Contagion and Trade : Why are Currency Crises Regional?

Glick, Reuven; Rose, Andrew - 2021

Currency crises tend to be regional; they affect countries in geographic proximity. This suggests that patterns of international trade are important in understanding how currency crises spread, above and beyond any macroeconomic phenomena. We provide empirical support for this hypothesis. Using...

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