an improved current account). France%u2019s decision to suspend the free coinage of silver in 1876 played a paramount … that France%u2019s decision to end bimetallism was exogenous from the viewpoint of countries on the silver standard. To … going to embrace international capital flows, the most export oriented countries will manage to mitigate the negative …

We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities … participation; (3) average sales in France rise very systematically with selling to less popular markets and to more markets. We …

globalization in France has been a huge growth in vertical specialization -- the completion of the different production stages of a … that in France vertical specialization -- defined as the share of imported inputs in production -- rose from 9% in 1977 to …

We use a historical quasi-experiment to estimate the causal effect of trade on capital flows. We argue that …, France, and the U.K., during the period of 1859–1913. The identification is based on the following historical facts: First … exported to Germany, France, and the U.K. by the Empire. Using the export-bundle-weighted regional rainfall as an instrument …

elimination of capital controls after 1973. The findings are robust to the use of 'deep' fundamentals such as legal origin and …