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Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
Krueger, Anne O. - 2021
On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233025
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065371
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Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy
von Below, David - 2008
The paper illustrates how one may assess our comprehensive uncertainty about the various relations in the entire chain from human activity to climate change. Using a modified version of the RICE model of the global economy and climate, we perform Monte Carlo simulations, where full sets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769638
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Multilateral Trade Bargaining and Dominant Strategies
Bagwell, Kyle - 2016
preferences if and only if the initial tariff vectors position the initial world price at its "politically optimal" level. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978848
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The Design of Trade Agreements
Bagwell, Kyle - 2016
What does economics have to say about the design of international trade agreements? We review a literature on this question, providing detailed coverage on three key design features of the GATT/WTO: reciprocity, nondiscrimination as embodied in the MFN principle, and tariff bindings and binding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996393
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Global Crises and Equity Market Contagion
Bekaert, Geert - 2011
Using the 2007-09 financial crisis as a laboratory, we analyze the transmission of crises to country-industry equity portfolios in 55 countries. We use a factor model to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings and residual correlations as indicative of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123703
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Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Contagion
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2010
Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150545
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Causes of the Great Recession of 2007-9 : The Financial Crisis is the Symptom Not the Disease!
Jagannathan, Ravi - 2010
Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150645
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Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010
behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757927
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Do Global Banks Spread Global Imbalances? The Case of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper During the Financial Crisis of 2007-09
Acharya, Viral V.; Schnabl, Philipp - 2021
The global imbalance explanation of the financial crisis of 2007-09 suggests that demand for riskless assets from countries with current account surpluses created fragility in countries with current account deficits, most notably, in the United States. We examine this explanation by analyzing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224410