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Financial Openness and Capital Inflows to Emerging Markets : In Search of Robust Evidence

Cerdeiro, Diego - 2019

We reassess the connection between capital account openness and capital flows in an empirical framework that is grounded in theory and makes use of previously unexplored variation in the data. We demonstrate how our theory-consistent regressions may overcome some ubiquitous measurement problems...

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Latin America and the Rising South : Changing World, Changing Priorities

de la Torre, Augusto - 2015

economic development of LAC countries. In particular, trade, financial, macroeconomic, and sectoral shifts, as well as labor …

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Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country : Theory and Policy

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2016

The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also benefit workers in the world's factories in developing countries? Using a parsimonious...

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Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country : Theory and Policy

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2016

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Understanding Diaspora Remittances Levels in Zimbabwe (2009-2020) including Future Forecasts Using ARIMA Technique (2020-2022)

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2021

Governments across the globe are progressively becoming aware of the increasing significance of international migration and remittances on the international development agenda. Remittances are perceived as one of the key benefits that migration bring to originating countries. Zimbabweans abroad...

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Who Will Fill China’s Shoes? The Global Evolution of Labor-Intensive Manufacturing

Hanson, Gordon - 2021

In this paper, I review evidence on changing global specialization in labor-intensive exporting. Production of apparel, footwear, furniture, and related products are how many low-income countries first enter export manufacturing. Just as China’s rise as a powerhouse in these goods supplanted a...

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The Pro-Trade Bias of Offshoring

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab; Chau, Nancy; … - 2021

countries that contain developing country labor content. We demonstrate that this pattern of offshoring can harbor a pro-trade … implications on countries’ (i) incentive to violate trade agreements, and (ii) ability to leverage the dispute settlement … tariffs to punish trade agreement violators …

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The Impact of Trade on Income Inequality in Mexico

Bernini, Andrea; de Groot, Olaf J. - 2021

. This paper examines whether changes in trade patterns following the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have … inequality. Trade explains around 14.5% of the total change in income inequality and forms the largest contribution of any of the …

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Dampening Global Financial Shocks : Can Macroprudential Regulation Help (More than Capital Controls)?

Bergant, Katharina - 2020

We show that macroprudential regulation can considerably dampen the impact of globalfinancial shocks on emerging markets. More specifically, a tighter level of regulation reducesthe sensitivity of GDP growth to VIX movements and capital flow shocks. A broad set ofmacroprudential tools contribute...

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The Impact of Monetary Policy Communication in an Emerging Economy : The Case of Indonesia

Ahokpossi, Calixte - 2020

Since the adoption of the inflation targeting framework by Bank Indonesia (BI), monetary policy communication has played an increasingly important role in BI's policy toolkit. This paper assesses BI's monetary policy communication from three perspectives: i) its transparency and clarity, ii) its...

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