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I study the first modern global banking crisis that began in London in 1866 and provide causal evidence that financial sector disruptions can reshape international trade patterns for decades. Using newly collected archival loan records that link banks to their operations abroad, I estimate that...
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This book describes the events and relationships that established Barings Bank as the world's first merchant bank and it's role in transforming the US into an international superpower. Appendixes examine the genealogy of the Baring, Bingham, and Willing families; the impact of banking pioneers...
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Over the last two decades, world trade and production have become increasingly organized around global value chains (GVC). Recent theoretical work has shown that countries can benefit from participation in GVCs through multiple channels. However, little is known empirically about the economic...
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Much is puzzling about Japan's finances today: its inability to arrest its economic decline, its festering banking …'s problems? Japan's Policy Trap offers a provocative new analysis of the country's protracted economic stagnation. Japanese … insider Akio Mikuni and long-term Japan resident R. Taggart Murphy contend that the country has landed in a policy trap that …
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