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Factor Endowments, Technology, Capital Mobility and the Sources of Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing

Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2017

Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...

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Cheap but flighty : how global imbalances create financial fragility

Ahnert, Toni; Perotti, Enrico - 2015

We analyze how a wealth shift to emerging countries may lead to instability in developed countries. Investors exposed to expropriation risk are willing to pay a safety premium to invest in countries with good property rights. Domestic intermediaries compete for such cheap funding by carving out...

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Export Discoveries, Diversification and Barriers to Entry

Klinger, Bailey - 2017

The literature on the relationship between economic diversification and development has grown rapidly in recent years, partly due to the surprising finding that diversification rises with gross domestic product per capita up to a certain point. Export diversification along the extensive margin...

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The Volatility of International Trade Flows in the 21st Century : Whose Fault is it Anyway?

Bennett, Federico Roberto - 2017

After investment, exports and imports are the most volatile components of aggregate demand within countries. Moreover, the volatility of growth and the volatility of trade flows tend to move together; they declined from the 1990s until 2009, followed by an increase since 2009. This paper...

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Structural Reforms and Labor Market Outcomes : International Panel Data Evidence

Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017

collected from a variety of sources, including the World Bank World Development Indicators, the International Monetary Fund …

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Anatomy and Impact of Export Promotion Agencies

Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2018

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …

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Inequality and Economic Growth : The Role of Initial Income

Brückner, Markus - 2018

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …

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Innovation and Development Around the World, 1960-2000

Lederman, Daniel - 2005

The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …

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Stages of Development of Payment Systems : Leapfrogging Across Countries and Mena's Place in the World

Gevaudan, Clement - 2020

This paper studies the relationship between the level of economic development and the incidence of three forms of payments across countries, namely the incidence of bank accounts, digital payments, and mobile money accounts among the adult populations across countries. It presents simple...

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Export Promotion Agencies : What Works and What Doesn't

Lederman, Daniel - 2016

The number of national export promotion agencies (EPAs) has tripled over the past two decades. While more countries have made them part of their national export strategy, studies have criticized their efficiency in developing countries. Partly in reaction to these critiques, EPAs have been...

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