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prediction that globalization decreases the cost of capital, but the documented effects are lower than theory leads us to expect …This paper examines the impact of globalization on the cost of equity capital. We argue that the cost of equity capital … decreases because of globalization for two important reasons. First, the expected return that investors require to invest in …
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cross country comparison in the post World War II period of 84 countries arrayed from very low to very high per capita …
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We revisit the recent literature on persistent deviations from covered interest parity (CIP) by showing theoretically that CIP violations imply arbitrage opportunities only if uncollateralized interbank lending rates are riskless. In the absence of observable riskless discount rates, we extract...
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The crises in Mexico, Thailand, and Russia in the 1990s spread quite rapidly to countries as far apart as South Africa and Pakistan. In the aftermath of these crises, many emerging economies lost access to international capital markets. Using data on international primary issuance, this paper...
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This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross …
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This paper provides a framework for analyzing the effects of symmetric and asymmetric changes in information about risk on equilibrium real interest rate spreads across countries. Following the literature on parameter uncertainty, improvements in information are modeled as reductions in...
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This paper presents the theoretical underpinnings of the MSG2 simulation model of the world economy. The MSG2 model is … a dynamic general equilibrium model of the world economy which pays particular attention to the relation between stocks … version presented here the world is divided into the U.S., Japan, Germany, the rest of the EMS, and the rest of the OECD, non …
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Globalization has been blamed for rising inequality in rich and poor countries. Yet the views of many protagonists in … empirical literature on the relationship between globalization and wage inequality. While the initial analysis that started in … cumulative effect has been modest, and that globalization does not explain the preponderance of the rise in wage inequality …
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recently available World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to study the properties of the new measures of the REER for 40 countries …
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This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...
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