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An Index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty
Davis, Steven J. - 2016
Building on Baker, Bloom and Davis (2016), I construct a monthly index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty (GEPU) from January 1997. The GEPU Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 16 countries that account for two-thirds of global output. Each national EPU index reflects...
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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions
Nashashibi, Karim - 1974
In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...
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Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … illustrates that, statically, globalization (defined as reduced trade barriers) has ambiguous effects on welfare, while …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …
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International Policy Coordination in Historical Perspective : A View from the Interwar Years
Eichengreen, Barry J. - 1984
model developed in this section suggests that the failure to coordinate policies lent a deflationary bias to the world …
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Designing an International Economic Order : A Research Agenda
Bowen, Renee - 2020
research agenda by applying it to the World Trade Organization …
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Preventing Financial Crises : An International Perspective
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 1994
In recent years the possibility of an international financial crisis has increased because of greater liquidity of international financial markets, an increase in corporate indebtedness and the decline of the banking industry. Using an asymmetric information analysis, this paper outlines what...
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International Coordination of Economic Policies : Scope, Methods, and Effects
Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1988
actual evolution of the world economy over the 1974-87 period. Our findings suggest that simple mechanistic rule …
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The Gold Pool (1961-1968) and the Fall of the Bretton Woods System. Lessons for Central Bank Cooperation
Bordo, Michael - 2017
The Gold Pool (1961-1968) was one of the most ambitious cases of central bank cooperation in history. Major central banks pooled interventions - sharing profits and losses - to stabilize the dollar price of gold. Why did it collapse? From at least 1964, the fate of the Pool was in fact tied to...
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International Coordination and Precautionary Policies
Aizenman, Joshua - 2015
This paper highlights the rare conditions leading to international cooperation, and the reasons why eliciting this cooperation may be beneficial in preventing adverse tail shocks from spiraling into global depressions. In normal times, deeper macro cooperation among countries is associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456878
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International Coordination of Central Bank Policy
Engel, Charles - 2015
This paper surveys the current state of the literature on international monetary policy coordination. It relates recent policy discussions to the lessons from the literature. It proposes several avenues for future research
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