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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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Feasible Globalizations
Rodrik, Dani - 2002
The nation-state system, democratic politics, and full economic integration are mutually incompatible. Of the three, at most two can be had together. The Bretton Woods/GATT regime was successful because its architects subjugated international economic integration to the needs and demands of...
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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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Government Policies in a Granular Global Economy
Gaubert, Cecile; Itskhoki, Oleg; Vogler, Maximilian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use the granular model of international trade developed in Gaubert and Itskhoki (2020) to study the rationale and implications of three types of government interventions typically targeted at large individual firms -- antitrust, trade and industrial policies. We find that in antitrust...
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Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange : The Case of Environmental Treaties
Rose, Andrew K. - 2008
We examine the role of non-economic partnerships in promoting international economic exchange. Since far-sighted countries are more willing to join costly international partnerships such as environmental treaties, environmental engagement tends to encourage international lending. Countries with...
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China and the TPP : A Numerical Simulation Assessment of the Effects Involved
Li, Chunding - 2012
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new negotiation on cross border liberalization of goods and service flows going beyond WTO disciplines and focused on issues such as regulation and border controls. Though the US, Australia and other pacific countries are included, China is notable for...
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Currency Wars or Efficient Spillovers? A General Theory of International Policy Cooperation
Korinek, Anton - 2016
In an interconnected world, national economic policies regularly lead to large international spillover effects, which frequently trigger calls for international policy cooperation. However, the premise of successful cooperation is that there is a Pareto inefficiency, i.e. if there is scope to...
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Monetary Policy in an Era of Global Supply Chains
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2020
We study the implications of global supply chains for the design of monetary policy, using a small-open economy New Keynesian model with multiple stages of production. Within the family of simple monetary policy rules with commitment, a rule that targets separate producer price inflation at...
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Might Global Uncertainty Promote International Trade?
Baley, Isaac - 2019
Common wisdom dictates that uncertainty impedes trade--we show that uncertainty can fuel more trade in a simple general equilibrium trade model with information frictions. In equilibrium, increases in uncertainty increase both the mean and the variance in returns to exporting implying that trade...
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Globalization, Trade Imbalances and Labor Market Adjustment
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Pessoa, João Paulo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
model to study the behavior of labor markets in response to globalization shocks, including shocks to technology, trade … quantitatively the short- and long-run implications of globalization shocks for labor reallocation and unemployment dynamics. In a … 2.2% gain in response to globalization shocks. These gains would have been 73% larger in the absence of the global …
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