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Krueger, Anne O. - 2021

On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to …

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Financial Crises and Reform of the International Financial System

Fischer, Stanley - 2021

Between December 1994 and March 1999, Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Russia and Brazil experienced major financial crises which were associated with massive recessions and extreme movements of exchange rates. Similar crises have threatened Turkey and Argentina (2000 and 2001) and...

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Why are the Critics so Convinced that Globalization is Bad for the Poor?

Aisbett, Emma - 2014

Proponents of globalization often conclude that its critics are ignorant or self-motivated. In doing so, they have … missed a valuable opportunity to discover both how best to communicate the benefits of globalization, and how to improve on … the current model of globalization. This paper examines the values, beliefs and facts that lead critics to the view that …

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Multilateral Trade Bargaining : a First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

This paper empirically examines recently declassified data from the GATT/WTO on tariff bargaining. We document eight stylized facts about these interconnected high-stakes international negotiations. We use detailed product-level offer and counteroffer data to examine several questions about...

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The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly

Subramanian, Arvind; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2021

Contrary to the recent literature that concludes that the GATT/WTO has been completely ineffective in promoting world … imports estimated at about 44 percent of world trade. The same has not been true for developing country members, although …

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Does the WTO Make Trade More Stable?

Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021

I examine the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General …

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Do WTO Members Have More Liberal Trade Policy?

Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2022

This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly...

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Gatt-Think

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. Our discussion proceeds in three steps. First, we examine the purpose of a trade agreement. In both the traditional economic and the political-economy approaches to the study of trade...

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Learning About Intervention Target Zones

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

This paper provides a framework for evaluating how market participants' beliefs about foreign exchange target zones change as they learn about central bank intervention policy. In order to examine this behavior, we first generalize the standard target zone model to allow for intra-marginal...

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When Did the Dollar Overtake Sterling as the Leading International Currency? Evidence from the Bond Markets

Chitu, Livia - 2012

This paper offers new evidence on the emergence of the dollar as the leading international currency, focusing on its role as currency of denomination in global bond markets. We show that the dollar overtook sterling much earlier than commonly supposed, as early as in 1929. Financial market...

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