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The global financial crisis: how similar? How different? How costly?

Claessens, Stijn; Kose, M. Ayhan; Terrones, Marco E. - 2010

This paper provides a brief analysis of three major questions raised in the context of the recent global financial crisis. First, how similar is the crisis to previous episodes? We argue that the crisis featured some close similarities to earlier ones, including the presence of credit and asset...

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Explaining the migration of stocks from exchanges in emerging economies to international centres

Claessens, Stijn; Kingebiel, Daniela; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2002

The purpose of the study is two-fold. First, it examines whether Internet usage converges across the geographical space comprising the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Second, it aims to expand the currently rather limited empirical evidence on the determinants of Internet...

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A Multi-layer Scenario Analysis for Sustainable International Transport

Ubbels, Barry; Rodenburg, Caroline; Nijkamp, Peter - 2000

It is clear that the future of the transport sector is fraught withuncertainties, as the system can be influenced by many factors thatcan develop in various ways. The aim of this paper is to gain insightinto the future development of the transportation sector. It presentsthe development of the...

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Can trade really hurt? An empirical follow-up on Samuelson's controversial paper

Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2008

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home country. We illustrate this prospect in a simple Ricardian model for sitations with outward knowledge spillovers. Within this framework Samuelson's Act II effects may occur....

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Can trade really hurt?: an empirical follow-up on Samuelson's controversial paper

Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2008

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Trade protection during the crisis: Does it deter foreign direct investment?

Görg, Holger; Labonte, Philipp - 2011

This paper looks empirically at the implications that protectionist measures implemented during the current crisis may have had for a country's ability to attract foreign direct investment. The research utilizes data on such measures that is available from Global Trade Alert, combined with...

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Asia's Changing Role in World Trade: Prospects for South - South Trade Growth to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2011

from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade … of the world? In particular, what can be expected of developing Asia's intraregional trade and its trade with other … developing country regions? This paper addresses these questions by projecting a core baseline for the world economy from 2004 to …

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Financial exchange rates and international currency exposures

Lane, Philip R.; Shambaugh, Jay C. - 2008

Our goal in this project is to gain a better empirical understanding of the international financial implications of currency movements. To this end, we construct a database of international currency exposures for a large panel of countries over 1990-2004. We show that trade-weighted exchange...

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Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies - A Comparative Analysis in a Multi-Country Context

Brons, Martijn; de Groot, Henri L.F.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999

The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...

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Enhancing Efficiency of Water Provision

Dalhuisen, Jasper; Nijkamp, Peter - 2002

One of the policy options to increase the efficiency in the provision of scarce water resources is a reduction in transaction costs in water chains by developing integrated forms of water management. Integrated water management in case of river basin areas may comprise inter alia: (1) increasing...

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