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Autor:
Chad P. Bown, Patricia Tovar
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Economics. 96:115-125
This paper is the first to use product-level data to examine empirically whether countries use antidumping and safeguard exceptions to unwind commitments to lower tariffs in the face of domestic political–economic pressure. We focus on the case of
Publikováno v:
Journal of African Economies
Journal of African Economies, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011, 20 (2), pp.312-340
Journal of African Economies, 2011, 20 (2), pp.312-340
Journal of African Economies, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011, 20 (2), pp.312-340
Journal of African Economies, 2011, 20 (2), pp.312-340
This paper investigates the determinants and the macroeconomic role of remittances in sub-Saharan Africa. It assembles the most comprehensive data set available so far on remittances in the region; it comprises data for 36 countries for 1990 through
Autor:
Bernard Hoekman, Joseph Francois
Publikováno v:
Journal of Economic Literature. 48:642-692
A substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services since the mid-1980s. Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector lib
Autor:
Alessandro Nicita, Bernard Hoekman
Publikováno v:
The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development. 19:65-79
This paper compares the predicted trade impacts of a successful Doha Round with the trade effects of actions aimed at reducing domestic trade costs for traders in developing countries and the world as a whole. We show that a relatively small reductio
Autor:
Sebastian Galiani, Guido Porto
Publikováno v:
The Review of Economics and Statistics. 92(3):482-494
This paper provides new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages. We first introduce a model of trade that combines a noncompetitive wage-setting mechanism due to unions with a factor abundance hypothesis. The predictions of the model are th
Publikováno v:
Review of Financial Studies. 23:4281-4323
We exploit an unexpected inflow of liquidity in an emerging market to study how capital is intermediated to firms. We find that backward-looking credit limit constraints imposed by banks make it difficult for firms to borrow, despite readily availabl
Publikováno v:
IMF Staff Papers. 57:172-208
This paper uses a unique database covering 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2007 to study the determinants of the allocation and composition of private capital flows across countries, as well as channels through which these flows c
Autor:
Melecky, Martin
Publikováno v:
Comparative Economic Studies. 52(1):104-129
This paper uses synchronization indicators of domestic and foreign fundamentals to choose suitable currency allocation of public external debt. The selection of explanatory variables for exchange rate volatility is motivated using a New Keynesian Pol
Publikováno v:
Review of World Economics. 145:551-571
China and India are rapidly growing, labor-abundant economies with very different export mixes. China is more integrated into global production sharing for manufactures, while services exports are more important for India. Even assuming India integra
Autor:
Stephen Knack
Publikováno v:
Sovereign Rents And The Quality Of Tax Policy And Administration
Windfall revenues from foreign aid or natural resource exports can weaken governments’ incentives to design or maintain efficient tax systems. Cross-country data for developing countries provide evidence for this hypothesis, using a World Bank indi