This paper introduces the first effort to quantitatively document the small arms market by collating field reports and … market is developed and empirically estimated to identify the key determinants of assault rifle prices. Variables which proxy …

globalization for local market deepening, international risk diversification, financial contagion, and financial dollarization, and … finds them to be rather limited. Whereas financial globalization has indeed fostered domestic market deepening in good times …Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly …

(the VIX, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain … common factors exhibits a "globalization" stage up to 2007, during which they acquire growing importance, followed by a phase …

The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off … emerging market and developing economies weathered the 2009 global recession relatively well and delivered a stronger recovery …

globalization reduces market volatility (measured by the volatility of stock returns) in tranquil times, and increases it in … turbulent ones. On average, the first effect dominates, so that financial globalization leads to a decrease in market volatility …This paper computes a new financial globalization index for a large sample of countries for 1992-2016. Unlike other …

. This is achieved using firm-level data from World Bank Enterprise Surveys covering more than 16,000 manufacturing firms in …

goods they produce tend to be subject to relatively high trade barriers. This paper analyzes market access barriers faced by …

liberalization. One reason is a form of "negotiating tunnel vision," which has led to a focus on reciprocal market opening rather … in securing new liberalizing commitments. Third, insulating domestic consumers from international market failure is a … regulatory commitments by exporters in return for market access commitments by importers. Fourth, such bargains create a risk of …

World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the summary measures and macroeconomic …