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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions

Bagwell, Kyle - 1999

To what extent must nations cede control over their economic and social policies if global efficiency is to be achieved in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor, the WTO) in the realm of labor and environmental...

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National Sovereignty in an Interdependent World

Bagwell, Kyle - 2004

way of achieving important international objectives? These two questions rest at the heart of contemporary debate over the … role and design of international institutions as well as growing tension between globalization and the preservation of … (Nash) world in which there exist no international agreements of any kind. And with national sovereignty characterized in …

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"Make Us a King" : Anarchy, Predation, and the State

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1997

In order to enforce a collective choice to allocate resource to guarding against predators producers must subject themselves to the state's sovereign power to tax and to spend. But these sovereign powers in hand the state can exploit the producers by taxing and spending for its" own purposes....

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Perceived FOMC : The Making of Hawks, Doves and Swingers

Bordo, Michael D. - 2018

Narrative records in US newspapers reveal that about 70 percent of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members who served during the last 55 years are perceived to have had persistent policy preferences over time, as either inflation-fighting hawks or growth-promoting doves. The rest are...

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Dimensions of Credit Risk and Their Relationship to Economic Capital Requirements

Carey, Mark - 2000

Now in prospect is a major revision of international bank capital regulations that would embody recent advances in …

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Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion

Keller, Wolfgang - 2000

Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillover are global or local. This paper estimates the amount of spillover from R&D expenditures in major industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is used which encompasses most of...

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The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows

Portes, Richard - 1999

information heavily determines the pattern of international transactions. Our model integrates elements of the finance literature … on portfolio composition and the international macroeconomics and asset trade literature. Gross asset flows depend on …

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Tax reform, delocation and heterogeneous firms

Baldwin, Richard - 2009

The standard international tax model is extended to allow for heterogeneous firms when agglomeration forces are …

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International Knowledge Flows : Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set

Kim, Jinyoung - 2006

We describe the construction of a panel data set from the U.S. patent data that contains measures of inventors' life-cycle R&D productivity--patents and patent citations. We match the data set to information on the U.S. pharmaceutical and semiconductor firms for whom they work. In this paper we...

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Cross-border Listings, Capital Controls, and Equity Flows To Emerging Markets

Edison, Hali J. - 2006

We investigate the impact of two types of financial liberalizations on short- and long-horizon capital flows to emerging markets in a framework that controls for push and pull factors. The first type of liberalization, a reduction in capital controls, is countrywide but uncertain, because its...

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