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-South commerce overtakes North-North flows. China's export specialization evolves rapidly over time, revealing a capacity to speed up … product ladders. Most developing countries hyper-specialize in handful of export products. The emergence of low- and middle …-income countries in trade reveals significant gaps in knowledge about the deep empirical determinants of export specialization, the …
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Among the developing countries of the world, those emerging markets that have sought some degree of integration into … world finance are characterized by higher per capita incomes, higher long-run growth rates, and lower output and consumption …
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Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
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We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First …
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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 …
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This paper examines how a newly designed global safe asset can mitigate international capital flows induced by flight-to-safety. In the model domestic investors have to co-invest in a safe asset along with their physical capital. At times of crisis, investors replace the initially safe domestic...
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globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …
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This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period …
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adjustment to supply price shocks in an individual country is coupled with the world equilibrium determination of capital flows …
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