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Urban Infrastructure Investment and Rent-Capture Potentials
Viguie, V. - 2017
In a context of rapid urbanization and energy transition, massive investments will be required to develop efficient public transport networks. Capturing the increase in land value caused by transport infrastructure (for example, through a betterment tax) appears a promising way to finance public...
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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System
Ederington, Josh - 2017
With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in reducing conventional tariff barriers, much of the recent focus of regional and multilateral trade agreements has switched to non-tariff measures, both border and...
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China and the World Trading System
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2017
The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha Agenda is an aberration because it does not reflect one of the largest shifts in the international economic and trading...
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly … way it is often measured, it has also led to the misperception that financial globalization in emerging markets has been … growing in recent years. The authors characterize the evolution of financial globalization in emerging markets using …
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Criss-Crossing Globalization : Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2014
This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services, or capital from poorer to richer countries. We first present a set of stylized facts. Using a measure that combines the sophistication of a country's exports with the average...
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Gross Capital Flows, Common Factors, and the Global Financial Cycle
Barrot, Luis-Diego - 2018
common factors exhibits a "globalization" stage up to 2007, during which they acquire growing importance, followed by a phase …
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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...
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Global Recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009. During each of these episodes, annual real per capita global gross domestic product contracted, and this contraction was accompanied by weakening of other key indicators of global...
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Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains
Antras, Pol - 2020
The paper offers an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). It outlines a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and it traces the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the...
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Financial Globalization and Market Volatility : An Empirical Appraisal
Cordella, Tito - 2017
This paper computes a new financial globalization index for a large sample of countries for 1992-2016. Unlike other … measures, the financial globalization index corrects for the heteroscedasticity of global volatility. This leads to a downward … adjustment of financial globalization trends for developed, emerging, and frontier markets. The paper also shows that financial …
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