Privatization of a public good (the management of sewage treatment centers in Dakar, Senegal) leads to an increase in … following privatization, and DHS data show that diarrhea rates among children under five decreased in Dakar relative to …

countries. Using desludging services in Dakar as a case-study, we document that prices are 66% higher in areas where prices are …

integration …

Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …

capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation …

of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …