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Dobrescu, Loretti - 2009

National saving rates differ enormously across developed countries. But these differences obscure a common trend, namely a dramatic decline over time. France and Italy, for example, saved over 17 percent of national income in 1970, but less than 7 percent in 2006. Japan saved 30 percent in 1970,...

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Balance Sheet Effects on Monetary and Financial Spillovers : The East Asian Crisis Plus 20

Aizenman, Joshua - 2016

We study how the financial conditions in the Center Economies [the U.S., Japan, and the Euro area] impact other countries over the period 1986 through 2015. Our methodology relies upon a two-step approach. We focus on five possible linkages between the center economies (CEs) and the non-Center...

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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016

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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Why Doesn't Technology Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

Cole, Harold L. - 2015

explain the differences in total factor productivity and establishment-size distributions across India, Mexico, and the United …

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International Reserves Before and after the Global Crisis : Is There No End to Hoarding?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2014

We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...

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Staying Afloat When the Wind Shifts : External Factors and Emerging-Market Banking Crises

Eichengreen, Barry - 2008

We analyze banking crises using a panel of macroeconomic and financial data for more than one hundred developing countries from 1975 through 1992. We find that banking crises in emerging markets are strongly associated with adverse external conditions. In particular Northern interest rates are...

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Learning from the Doers : Developing Country Lessons for Advanced Economy Growth

Chari, Anusha - 2014

From 1980 to 1992, emerging and developing countries grew by 3.4 percent per year. Their annual rate of growth increased to 5.4 percent between 1993 and 2012. No such increase occurred for advanced nations, whose average growth from 1980-2012 was roughly constant (excluding the impact of the...

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Monetary Policy Spillovers and the Trilemma in the New Normal : Periphery Country Sensitivity to Core Country Conditions

Aizenman, Joshua - 2015

We investigate why and how the financial conditions of developing and emerging market countries (peripheral countries) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two-step approach. First, we estimate the sensitivity of...

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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …

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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products

Meredith, Jennifer - 2013

curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …

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