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Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of …

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Technology in the Great Divergence

Clark, Gregory - 2001

things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this …

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The Effect of Health on Economic Growth : Theory and Evidence

Bloom, David E. - 2001

Macroeconomists acknowledge the contribution of human capital to economic growth, but their empirical studies define human capital solely in terms of schooling. In this paper, we extend production function models of economic growth to account for two additional variables that microeconomists...

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International Spillovers and Water Quality in Rivers : Do Countries Free Ride?

Sigman, Hilary - 2001

Transboundary spillovers may degrade environmental quality if countries free ride. This paper examines the extent of such degradation in water quality in international rivers. Using data from river monitoring stations in the UN's Global Emissions Monitoring System (GEMS), it compares pollution...

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Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Globalization

Bordo, Michael D. - 2001

In this paper we focus on the different historical regime experiences of the core and the periphery. Before 1914 advanced countries adhered to gold while periphery countries either emulated the advanced countries or floated. Some peripheral countries were especially vulnerable to financial...

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Commodity Market Integration, 1500-2000

Findlay, Ronald - 2001

integration was not monotonic; it was periodically interrupted by shocks such as wars and world depressions, or by endogenous …

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Antidumping and Retaliation Threats

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2001

This paper examines how the prospect of foreign retaliation affects the antidumping (AD) process in the United States. We separate the capacity for retaliation into two channels: (i) the capacity for foreign government retaliation under the dispute settlement procedures of the GATT/WTO system,...

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International Technology Diffusion

Keller, Wolfgang - 2001

I discuss the concept and empirical importance of international technology diffusion from the point of view of recent work on endogenous technological change. In this literature, technology is viewed as technological knowledge. I first review the major concepts, and how international technology...

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Financial Markets in Times of Stress

Kaminsky, Graciela L. - 2001

In this paper, we examine which markets are most synchronized internationally and exhibit the greater extent of comovement. We focus on daily data for four asset markets: bonds, equities, foreign exchange, and domestic money market. Our sample covers thirty-five developed and emerging market...

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Aging and International Capital Flows

Boersch-Supan, Axel - 2001

Throughout the world, population aging is a major challenge that will continue well into the 21st century. While the …-country overlapping generations model and combine it with long-term demographic projections for several world regions over a 50 year … rest of the world will be substantial. Closed-economy models of pension reform are likely to miss quantitatively important …

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