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Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what …

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Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds : A New Role for the World Trade Organization

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2012

dealing with undervalued exchange rates. This paper proposes new rules in the World Trade Organization to discipline cases of … WTO's enforcement mechanism is credible and effective. The World Trade Organization would not be involved in exchange rate … advantage of the two institutions, with the International Monetary Fund providing the essential technical expertise in the World …

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The Doha Development Agenda : What's on the Table?

Martin, Will; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

The outlines of a potential agreement, emerging after seven years of negotiations, imply that Doha offers three key benefits: reduced uncertainty of market access in goods and services; improved market access in agriculture and manufacturing; and the mobilization of resources to deal with the...

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Multilateralism beyond Doha

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2012

There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to … interests largely in the rich countries, is running out of steam; (ii) the world economy is moving broadly from conditions of …

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Location Decisions of Foreign Banks and Competitive Advantage

Claessens, Stijn; Van Horen, Neeltje - 2012

While institutional differences have been found to affect country growth patterns, much has remained unexplained, including how economic actors "overcome" institutional weaknesses and how internationalization helps or hinders development. Banking is an institutionally-intensive activity and the...

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International Financial Integration through Equity Markets : Which Firms from Which Countries Go Global?

Claessens, Stijn; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

equity, and cross-listing in major world stock markets. Using a large sample of 39,517 firms from 111 countries covering the …

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Measuring Ancient Inequality

Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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Determinants of Deposit-Insurance Adoption and Design

Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Kane, Edward J.; Laeven, Luc - 2012

The authors seek to identify factors that influence decisions about a country's financial safety net, using a new dataset on 170 countries covering the 1960-2003 period. Specifically, they focus on how outside influences, economic development, crisis pressures, and political institutions affect...

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Global Income Inequality : What It Is and Why it Matters

Milanovic, Branko - 2012

inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …

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Resolution of Failed Banks by Deposit Insurers : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten; Laeven, Luc - 2012

There is a wide cross-country variation in the institutional structure of bank failure resolution, including the role of the deposit insurer. The authors use quantitative analysis for 57 countries and discuss specific country cases to illustrate this variation. Using data for over 1,700 banks...

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