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Effect of Macroprudential Policies on Sovereign Bond Markets : Evidence from the ASEAN-4 Countries
Aizenman, Joshua; Uddin, Mohammed Gazi Salah; Luo, Tianqi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
ASEAN-4 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand). We measure sovereign vulnerability within a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388833
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On Current Account Surpluses and the Correction of Global Imbalances
Edwards, Sebastian - 2007
realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … a percentage point of GDP. Taken together, these results indicate that a realignment of global growth -- with Japan and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465752
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala - 1996
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473162
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994
Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
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The U.S. Japan Trade Imbalance from the Japanese Perspective
Sato, Ryuzo - 1988
By 1981, Japan achieved both internal and external equilibrium; exports and imports roughly balanced at sixteen percent …
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United States-Japan Economic Relations
McCulloch, Rachel - 1987
The bilateral relationship with Japan now dominates American thinking on the benefits and costs of foreign trade. This … paper reevaluates the past and future course of U.S.-Japan economic relations. It identifies six distinct aspects of the … relationship that may underlie the continuing friction: bilateral imbalance on merchandise trade, capital flows from Japan to the …
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Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? : Experimental Evidence from Myanmar
Field, Erica Marie; Maffioli, Elisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We experimentally evaluate the impact on child malnutrition of a maternal cash transfer program in Myanmar that was supplemented with Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) in a subset of villages. The combination of interventions significantly reduced the proportion of children stunted,...
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Leaders in Social Movements : Evidence From Unions in Myanmar
Boudreau, Laura; Macchiavello, Rocco; Minni, Virginia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Social movements are catalysts for crucial institutional changes. To succeed, they must coordinate members' views (consensus building) and actions (mobilization). We study union leaders within Myanmar's burgeoning labor movement. Union leaders are positively selected on both personality traits...
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Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh - 2018
In developing economies, mobile-linked services have the potential to significantly reduce transaction costs and provide a truly new conduit that could be used to facilitate the flow of savings into banks. We test this premise by introducing a product that permits Sri Lankan households to...
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Measuring Commuting and Economic Activity inside Cities with Cell Phone Records
Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Miyauchi, Yuhei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We show how to use commuting flows to infer the spatial distribution of income within a city. A simple workplace choice model predicts a gravity equation for commuting flows whose destination fixed effects correspond to wages. We implement this method with cell phone transaction data from Dhaka...
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