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Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves : The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar
Papaioannou, Elias - 2006
market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank's desire to hold a sizable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466332
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Death and Development
Lorentzen, Peter - 2005
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467057
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Systemic Crises and Growth
Ranciere, Romain - 2005
In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467611
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Patterns of Intra- and Inter-State Trade
Wolf, Holger C. - 1997
Recent studies suggest that intranational trade is "excessive' compared to international trade. An intuitive explanation for this home bias is provided by national trade barriers. A dataset of trade between US states, however, reveals that home bias extends to subnational units. The data suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472885
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Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean
Pritchett, Lant - 2014
Consensus forecasts for the global economy over the medium and long term predict the world's economic gravity will … substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there … are substantial reasons that China and India may grow much less rapidly than is currently anticipated. Most importantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458092
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The Revived Bretton Woods System's First Decade
Dooley, Michael P. - 2014
cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458214
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Are Commodity Futures Prices Barometers of the Global Economy?
Hu, Conghui - 2013
This paper analyzes whether commodity futures prices traded in the United States reveal information relevant to stock prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive predictive powers of overnight futures returns of...
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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from oDesk and India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2012
, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract …This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460187
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Assessing Misallocation in Agriculture : Plots versus Farms
Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We assess the extent and cost of misallocation in agriculture in less-developed countries comparing the analysis at the plot and farm levels. Using detailed data from Uganda, we show that the plot-level analysis leads to extremely large estimates of reallocation gains, even after adjusting for...
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The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A.; Vollmer, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use a dataset of the entire population of English Parliamentary enclosure acts between 1750 and 1830 to provide the first causal evidence of their impact. Exploiting a feature of the Parliamentary process that produced such legislation as a source of exogenous variation, we show that...
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