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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700

Jacks, David S. - 2009

of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …

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Financial Globalization : A Reappraisal

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2006

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...

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An Anatomy of International Trade : Evidence from French Firms

Eaton, Jonathan - 2008

We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities stand out: (1) the number of French firms selling to a market, relative to French market share, increases systematically with market size; (2) sales distributions are very similar...

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Dissecting Trade : Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations

Eaton, Jonathan - 2004

We examine entry across 113 national markets in 16 different industries using a comprehensive data set of French manufacturing firms. The data are unique in indicating how much each firm exports to each destination. Looking across all manufacturers: (1) Firms differ substantially in export...

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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation

Eaton, Jonathan - 1995

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the …

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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000

A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time … for 10 in the so-called greater Atlantic economy: Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …

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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization

Ju, Jiandong - 2007

the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …

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Financial Globalization, Growth and Volatility in Developing Countries

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2004

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of empirical evidence about the impact of financial globalization on growth and volatility in developing countries. The results suggest that it is difficult to establish a robust causal relationship between financial integration and economic growth....

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