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The Making of Behavioral Development Economics
Demeritt, Allison Davis - 2018
A core insight from early behavioral economics is that much of human judgment and behavior is influenced by "fast thinking" that is intuitive, associative, and automatic; very little human thinking resembles the rational thinking that characterizes homo economicus. What is less well-recognized is...
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Can Latin America Tap the Globalization Upside?
de la Torre, Augusto - 2017
This paper discusses the theoretical arguments in favor of and against economic globalization and, with a view to … ascertaining whether Latin America may be able to capture the globalization upside, examines the trends and salient features of … Latin America's globalization as compared with that of Southeast Asia. The paper focuses on trade and financial integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973335
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976669
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Trade Linkages between the Belt and Road Economies
Boffa, Mauro - 2018
This paper studies the production and trade linkages between a selected group of economies belonging to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). After defining a group of Belt and Road Economies, the paper uses three standard trade databases to analyze trade and production linkages among these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920128
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Are All Trade Agreements Equal? The Role of Distance in Shaping the Effect of Economic Integration Agreements on Trade Flows
Freeman, Rebecca - 2017
How does geographic distance affect the impact of trade agreements on bilateral exports, and through what channels? This paper examines this questions in a gravity model context for different types of goods for 185 countries over the period 1965-2010. Three stylized facts emerge. First, although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968195
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Weaponomics : The Global Market for Assault Rifles
Killicoat, Phillip - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747773
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Global Income Inequality : What it is and Why it Matters
Milanovic, Branko - 2016
inequality (inequality between citizens of the world). It discusses the relationship between globalization and global inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748065
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Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement : An Empirical Investigation
de Soyres, Francois - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement -- also called the trade comovement slope -- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857746
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Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities
Jedwab, Remi Camille - 2019
variety of historical and contemporary sources, it shows that there exists marked variation in the age structure of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859463
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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam, rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838624