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Import Protection, Business Cycles, and Exchange Rates : Evidence from the Great Recession

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

five industrialized economies -- the United States, European Union, Australia, Canada and South Korea. There is evidence of …

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Determinants of International Buyout Investments

Aldatmaz, Serdar - 2020

Using a comprehensive and proprietary data set on international private equity activity, this paper studies the determinants of buyout investments across 61 countries and 19 industries over 1990-2017. The study finds evidence that macroeconomic conditions, development of stock and credit...

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Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth : A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

and poor adults. This paper provides an overview of financial inclusion around the world and reviews the recent empirical …

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The Gatt's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

, Canada and Australia) than they did for many other important countries, including the set of other (non-core) GATT …

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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What?S Left for the WTO?

Bown, Chad P. - 2018

Suppose that when addressing the question of ?what?s left for the WTO?,? tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...

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Is the WTO Passe?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2018

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...

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The Microfinance Business Model : Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit

Cull, Robert - 2017

Recent evidence suggests only modest social and economic impacts of microfinance. Favorable cost-benefit ratios then depend on low costs. This paper uses proprietary data on 1,335 microfinance institutions between 2005 and 2009, jointly serving 80.1 million borrowers, to calculate the costs of...

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How Does Long-Term Finance Affect Economic Volatility?

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

This paper examines how the ability to access long-term debt affects firm-level growth volatility. The analysis finds that firms in industries with stronger preference to use long-term finance relative to short-term finance experience lower growth volatility in countries with better-developed...

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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Firms'Capital Structure

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

Using a data set covering about 277,000 firms across 79 countries over the period 2004-11, this paper examines the evolution of firms' capital structure during the global financial crisis and its aftermath in 2010-11. The study finds that firm leverage and debt maturity declined in advanced...

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