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competitive devaluations. The sheer size of China, and its lower sterilization costs suggests that China may be the winner of a … and precautionary motives in the context of China may be challenged by a version of the quot;peso problem.quot; Hoarding …
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In this essay, we argue that key assumptions in international macroeconomic theory, though useful for understanding the economic relationships among developed countries, have been pushed beyond their competence to include relationships between developed economies and emerging markets. The...
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. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …
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Over the last two centuries, many countries experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income, education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic factors associated with...
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This paper studies the value of external commitment to policy reforms in the case of WTO/GATT accessions. The accessions often entail reforms that go beyond narrowly defined trade liberalization, and have to overcome fierce resistance in the acceding countries, as reflected in protracted...
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human capital to China's economic growth. The results indicate that human capital plays a much more important role in China … enrollment in China increased nearly fivefold between 1997 and 2007) while growth rates of GDP are little changed over the period … that there have been decreased in the efficiency of inputs usage in China or worsened misallocation of physical and human …
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spectacular advances of the economies of China, India, and Southeast Asia. Section 1 reviews the debate over the sources of … the new recognition among Western economists that the sustained, very rapid growth in China and Southeast Asia was …
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China during the four decades between 2000 and 2040. The first concerns the source of the factors which make it likely that … China will continue to grow at a high rate for another generation. The paper argues that this growth will be the result of …
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This paper provides a historical look at how the multilateral trading system has coped with the challenge of shocks and shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and political conflicts. By shifts we mean slow-moving,...
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We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...
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