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When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down: International Evidence and Implications for China

Eichengreen, Barry; Shin, Kwanho; Park, Donghyun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Using international data starting in 1957, we construct a sample of cases where fast-growing economies slow down. The evidence suggests that rapidly growing economies slow down significantly, in the sense that the growth rate downshifts by at least 2 percentage points, when their per capita...

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Edgeworth Cycles Revisited

Joseph J. Doyle, Jr.; Muehlegger, Erich; Samphantharak, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Some gasoline markets exhibit remarkable price cycles, where price spikes are followed by a string of small price declines until the next price spike. This pattern is predicted from a model of competition driven by Edgeworth cycles, as described by Maskin and Tirole. We extend the Maskin and...

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China and India: Reforms and the Response: How Differently have the Economies Behaved

Whalley, John; Agarwal, Manmohan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

direct investment inflow (FDI), gross domestic savings, gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), aid, private capital inflows …

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Trying to Understand the PPPs in ICP2011: Why are the Results so Different?

Deaton, Angus; Aten, Bettina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Purchasing power parity exchange rates, or PPPs, are price indexes that summarize prices in each country relative to a numeraire country, typically the United States. These numbers are used to compare living standards across countries, by academics in studies of economic growth, particularly...

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The impact of new drug launches on longevity: evidence from longitudinal disease-level data from 52 countries, 1982-2001

Lichtenberg, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

We perform an econometric analysis of the effect of new drug launches on longevity, using data from the IMS Health Drug Launches database and the WHO Mortality Database. Our data cover virtually all of the diseases borne by people in 52 countries during the period 1982-2001, and enable us to...

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Democracy and Globalization

Eichengreen, Barry - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The connections between globalization and democracy are a classic question in international political economy and a topic much debated in foreign policy circles. While the analytical literature is extensive, few previous studies have acknowledged the possibility of bidirectional causality or...

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Shocks, Structures or Monetary Policies? The Euro Area and US After 2001

Christiano, Lawrence; Rostagno, Massimo; Motto, Roberto - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates more vigorously in the recent recession than the European Central Bank did. By comparison with the Fed, the ECB followed a more measured course of action. We use an estimated dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions to show that...

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Gains and Losses from Potential Bilateral US-China Trade Retaliation

Whalley, John; Dong, Yan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Two closely related numerical general equilibrium models of world trade are used to analyze the potential consequences of US-China bilateral retaliation on trade flows and welfare. One is a conventional Armington trade model with five regions, the US, China, EU, Japan and Rest of the World, and...

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Trade, Jobs, and Wages

Krugman, Paul; Lawrence, Robert Zachary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

There is a broad consensus among US opinion leaders that our economic problem is largely one of failures of international competition -- that trade deficits have eroded our manufacturing base, that inability to sell on world markets has been a major drag on economic growth, and that imports from...

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Open Door Policy and China's Rapid Growth: Evidence from City-level Data

Wei, Shang-Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

Chinese cities. In comparison, in the late 1980s, the contribution to growth comes mainly from foreign investment. The … contribution of foreign investment comes in the form of technological and managerial spillover across firms as opposed to an … their effective utilization of foreign investment and exports. …

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