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Big-Think Regionalism : A Critical Survey
Baldwin, Richard - 2008
Small Think Regionalism focused on the Vinerian question: "Would a nation gain from joining a trade bloc?" Big Think Regionalism considers regionalism's systemic impact on the world trading system, focusing mainly on two questions: "Does spreading regionalism harm world welfare?" and "Does...
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The Dollar in an Era of International Retrenchment
Chahrour, Ryan; Valchev, Rosen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Recent trends suggest the world economy may be tending towards an equilibrium with two distinct trading blocs, each …-for-tat responses between just the US and China would likely leave the dollar's role essentially unchanged. If both countries coordinate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322792
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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
Huberman, Michael - 2009
The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
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The Rise of Europe : Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of European nations with access to the Atlantic, and especially by those nations that engaged in colonialism and long distance oceanic trade. Moreover, Atlantic ports grew much...
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International Policy Coordination : The Long View
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...
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Coping with Shocks and Shifts : The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2011
shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461059
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Defying Gravity : The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
Jacks, David S. - 2011
In the wake of the Great Depression, the Canadian government embarked on a stunning reversal in its commercial policy. A key element of its response was the promotion of intra-imperial trade at the Imperial Economic Conference of 1932. This paper addresses whether or not Canadian trade was able...
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The Empire Project : Trade Policy in Interwar Canada
Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyze the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287339
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
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