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globalization and find persistence in productive capabilities proxied by economic complexity, export diversification, and …
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Approaching the issue of mounting global imbalances from the perspective of the Bretton Woods II hypothesis,ʺ this paper argues that the popular preoccupation with China’s supposed export-led development strategy is misplaced. It also suggests, similar to Japan’s depression, subdued growth...
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Approaching the issue of mounting global imbalances from the perspective of the quot;Bretton Woods II hypothesis,quot; this paper argues that the popular preoccupation with China's supposed export-led development strategy is misplaced. It also suggests, similar to Japan's depression, subdued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711566
Long-run cross-country price data exhibit a puzzle. Today, richer countries exhibit higher price levels than poorer countries, a stylized fact usually attributed to the "Balassa-Samuelson" effect. But looking back fifty years, or more, this effect virtually disappears from the data. What is...
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asymmetries within the world economy. This paper presents empirical evidence on this asymmetry confirming that developing …
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economic growth of peripheral economies during the so-called first age of financial globalization before 1914. For this paper … globalization. Our temptative explanation for this marked difference between now and then stresses property rights protection as a …
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) a search for statistical evidence in the East of an “Early Globalization” comparable to the one ongoing in the West by … (agents, policies, etc.) and with dissimilar effects on long-run economic growth; 3) the absence of an “Early Globalization …” in the East reveals the existence of some economic and institutional limitations in this part of the world and …
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We investigate how protectionist policies influence short-run economic growth. Our empirical strategy exploits an extraordinary tax scandal that gave rise to an unexpected change of government in Sweden. A free-trade majority in parliament was overturned by a protectionist majority in 1887. The...
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This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the role of trade and structural transformation as potential drivers of the labor income share. Using cross-country data, both at the national and sectoral level, we find that trade openness is negatively correlated with the labor income share. The...
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The claim of globalization critics that the income gap to industrial countries is bound to widen for essentially all … developing countries as a consequence of economic globalization is in conflict with empirical evidence. Economic performance … and foreign indebtedness which may explain the varying experience with globalization in regard to per capita income growth …
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