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Foreign investors' changing appetite for risk-taking have been shown to be a key determinant of the global financial cycle. Such fluctuations in risk sentiment also correlate with the dynamics of UIP premia, capital flows, and exchange rates. To understand how these risk sentiment changes...
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We study the roles of globalization and structural change in the evolution of international GDP comovement among … share of less correlated sectors in GDP. Globalization - trend reductions in trade costs - exerts two opposing effects on … therefore comovement. On the other, globalization induces structural change towards services because it reduces the relative …
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of their affiliates in China to an exogenous change in China's openness to foreign direct investment (FDI). We find that … in industries where inward FDI was encouraged, Japan MNC's affiliates in China experienced increases in their employment …
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This paper analyzes frameworks for the design of the rules for international trading, assuming that it is possible to have some rule of law. In the Arrow-Debreu benchmark, where there is no economic power and political power is seemingly irrelevant, there is no need for trade agreements - free...
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This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...
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We build a two-country general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of cross-border data flows and pre-existing development gaps in data economies on each country's production and international trade. Raw data as byproducts of consumption can be transformed into various types of working data...
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We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...
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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First …
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Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their … between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …
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What is the impact of firms that cross-list, issue depositary receipts, or raise capital in international stock markets on the liquidity of remaining firms in domestic markets? Using a panel of over 3,200 firms from 55 countries during 1989-2000, we find that internationalization reduces the...
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