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Incomplete Integration and Contagion of Debt Distress in Economic Unions

Karayalcin, Cem - 2017

This paper compares different fiscal integration schemes on the basis of their ability to finance public investments and resilience to debt distress and contagion. Complete integration schemes, where a central authority chooses the level of public investments with productivity-enhancing...

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Economic Integration in the Lower Congo Region : Opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville Bottleneck

Brülhart, Marius - 2017

This working paper assesses cross-border economic integration in the Lower Congo region. It focuses on the Kinshasa-Brazzaville conurbation, which is projected to become Africa's largest urban area by 2025, and is already serving as the gateway to large hinterlands. Despite their size and...

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Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-Parametric Approach

Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2016

-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on …

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Trade Integration in East Asia : The Role of China and Production Networks

Haddad, Mona - 2016

integration of China has deepened production fragmentation in East Asia, countering fears of crowding out other countries for … international specialization. International production fragmentation in East Asia has intensified intraregional trade but has … significantly to growth in East Asia, they also breed vulnerabilities. They have not automatically led to technology spillovers and …

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International Financial Integration of East Asia and Pacific

Didier, Tatiana - 2018

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been …

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Market Integration and Poverty : Evidence from South Sudan

Varela, Gonzalo - 2017

This paper examines the effects of market integration on household consumption using data on seven food and two energy markets across South Sudan. The analysis reveals that markets in South Sudan are highly segmented. Price differences for narrowly defined products, across cities exceed in some...

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How is the Liberalization of Food Markets Progressing? Market Integration and Transaction Costs in Subsistence Economies

Zant, Wouter - 2017

The paper proposes a modification of Baulch's parity bounds model to measure the market integration of food markets in developing countries. Instead of extrapolating a single observation of transaction costs, it estimates transaction costs. Predicted transaction costs compare well with survey...

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Incomplete, Slow, and Asymmetric Price Transmission in Ten Product Markets of Bolivia

Varela, Gonzalo - 2017

With food prices on the rise, understanding the transmission of price shocks, both internationally and domestically, is central for trade policy analysis. This paper examines spatial market integration and its determinants for ten key food products in Bolivia, across the four most important...

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Regionalizing Infrastructure for Deepening Market Integration : The Case of East Africa

Kessides, Ioannis - 2017

The East African Community has long recognized that regional economic integration can yield significant welfare gains to its member states. To that end, the community has been making steady progress towards the removal of tariffs and quantitative restrictions to trade. Moreover, in recent years,...

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Determinants of Market Integration and Price Transmission in Indonesia

Varela, Gonzalo - 2017

This paper investigates the determinants of price differences and market integration among Indonesian provinces, using data from retail cooking oil, rice and sugar markets during the period 1993-2007, and from wholesale maize and soybean markets during the period 1992-2006. The authors measure...

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