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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R. - 2010
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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Level Versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments
Tian, Huifang - 2014
Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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Winners and Losers from Sovereign Debt Inflows
Broner, Fernando; Martin, Alberto; Pandolfi, Lorenzo; … - 2022
We study the transmission of sovereign debt inflow shocks on domestic firms. We exploit episodes of large sovereign debt inflows in six emerging countries that are due to the announcements of these countries' inclusion in two major local-currency sovereign debt indexes. We show that these...
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The Link between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014
-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality
Costinot, Arnaud - 2012
A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of "global supply chains" in which different countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang (2011), CVW hereafter, we have developed a simple theory...
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Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines
Karlan, Dean - 2018
A debt trap occurs when someone takes on a high-interest rate loan and is barely able to pay back the interest, and thus perpetually finds themselves in debt (often by re-financing). Studying such practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire...
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The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
Goldschmidt, Deborah - 2015
to contracting firms. For this end we develop a new method for identifying outsourcing of food, cleaning, security and … growth of domestic outsourcing in Germany since the early 1990s. Event-study analyses show that wages in outsourced jobs fall … associated with outsourcing stem from a loss of firm-specific rents, suggesting that labor cost savings are an important reason …
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Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance
Khanna, Tarun - 2010
-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …
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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade : A Pilot Study
Bate, Roger; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Mathur, Aparna; Attaran, Amir - 2021
tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … in India or non-African countries. Since this finding is robust for manufacturer-drug fixed effects, one likely …
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