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On the Geography of Trade : Distance is Alive and Well

Carrere, Celine; Schiff, Maurice - 2013

DOT falls over time for the average country in the world, and that the number of countries with declining DOT is close to …

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Trade, Environmental Regulations and the World Trade Organization : New Empirical Evidence

Busse, Matthias - 2013

The paper empirically explores the linkages between environmental regulations and international trade flows. So far, empirical studies either have failed to find any close statistical relationship or have delivered questionable results due to data limitations. Using a comprehensive new database...

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Monitoring Export Vulnerability to Changes in Growth Rates of Major Global Markets

Hollweg, Claire H.; Lederman, Daniel; Reyes, Jos??-Daniel - 2013

commodities and differentiated products. This methodology is applied to six developing countries, one from each World Bank region …

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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis

Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022

This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...

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Nowcasting Global Poverty

Castañeda Aguilar, R. Andrés; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; … - 2021

statistical learning to large-scale country-level data obtained from the World Development Indicators and Google Earth Engine. The … method that departs slightly from current World Bank practice - performs nearly as well as models using statistical learning …

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Weaponomics : The Global Market for Assault Rifles

Killicoat, Phillip - 2012

This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and journalist accounts to produce a cross-country time-series price index of Kalashnikov assault rifles. A model of the small arms market is developed and empirically estimated to...

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Creating an Efficient Financial System : Challenges in a Global Economy

Beck, Thorsten - 2012

Financial sector development fosters economic growth and reduces poverty by widening and broadening access to finance and allocating society's savings more efficiently. The author first discusses three pillars on which sound and efficient financial systems are built: macroeconomic stability and...

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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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How Concentrated are Global Infrastructure Markets?

Benitez, Daniel; Estache, Antonio - 2012

In infrastructure, the possibility of a positive relationship between operators' profitability and the degree of concentration is a major political issue in view of the wide diversity of feelings about the potential role of the private sector. This is particularly important in view of (i) the...

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Governance and the City : An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

Kaufmann, Daniel; L??autier, Frannie; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2012

The authors contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … globalization (at both the country and city level) do matter for city-level performance in terms of access and quality of delivery …

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