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Sudden Stops and Financial Frictions : Evidence from Industry Level Data

Cowan, Kevin - 2017

The nature of the microeconomic frictions that transform sudden stops in output collapses is not only of academic interest, but also crucial for the correct design of policy responses to prevent and address these episodes and the lack of evidence on this regard is an important shortcoming. This...

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Engendering Trade

Do, Quy-Toan - 2017

The authors analyze the interaction between a country's world market integration and its attitude towards gender roles … country's response to trade opening. Reciprocally, the authors show that as countries integrate into the world economy, the … paradoxically very specific to each country?s productive structure and exposure to world markets …

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Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility

Do, Quy-Toan - 2017

This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage...

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On the International Transmission of Shocks : Micro-Evidence from Mutual Fund Portfolios

Raddatz, Claudio E. - 2017

Using micro-level data on mutual funds from different financial centers investing in equity and bonds, this paper analyzes how investors and managers behave and transmit shocks across countries. The paper shows that the volatility of mutual fund investments is quantitatively driven by investors...

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The Structural Determinants of External Vulnerability

Loayza, Norman - 2016

The authors examine empirically how domestic structural characteristics related to openness and product- and factor-market flexibility influence the impact that terms-of-trade shocks can have on aggregate output. For this purpose, they apply an econometric methodology based on semi-structural...

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International Asset Allocations and Capital Flows : The Benchmark Effect

Raddatz, Claudio E. - 2017

This paper studies channels through which well-known benchmark indexes impact asset allocations and capital flows across countries. The study uses unique monthly micro-level data of benchmark compositions and mutual fund investments during 1996-2012. Benchmarks have important effects on equity...

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