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Origin as an implicit trade barrier for imports from the rest of the world. Global Value Chains are most relevant to …
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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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How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, this paper introduces supply chain linkages into a workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with...
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This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard input-output table-based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. The analysis uses Chinese firm census data for the manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained...
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Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly … relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the … way it is often measured, it has also led to the misperception that financial globalization in emerging markets has been …
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(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 …
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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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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 …
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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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. This is achieved using firm-level data from World Bank Enterprise Surveys covering more than 16,000 manufacturing firms in …
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