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Globalization and Productivity in the Developing World
We explore the impact of international trade in a monopolistically competitive economy that encompasses technology choice and an endogenous distribution of mark-ups due to credit frictions. We show that in such an environment a gradual opening of trade may ?but not necessarily must ?have a negative impact on productivity and overall output. The reason is that the pro-competitive…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Redemption or abstinence ? Original sin, currency mismatches and counter-cyclical policies in the new millenium
This paper updates our previous work on the level and evolution of original sin. It shows that while the number of countries that issue local-currency debt in international markets has increased in the past decade, this improvement has been quite modest. Although we find that countries have been borrowing at home, thanks to deepening domestic markets, we document that foreign…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/12/2012
Wie geht es dem Schweizer (und Schwyzer) Mittelstand?
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 03/12/2012
The principle of exhaustion and the resale of downloaded software - the UsedSoft ./. Oracle case
Institution partenaire
English / 30/11/2012
Countercyclical capital regulation and bank ownership structure
This paper develops a macroeconomic framework where the representative bank is owned by inside and outside owners and copes with capital requirements that vary countercyclically. The issuance of outside equity is characterized getting insights from the literature on corporate governance, especially that on corporate governance and investor protection. The insider receives utility…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 19/11/2012
External shocks, internal shots : the geography of civil conflicts
This paper uses detailed information on the latitude and longitude of conflict events within a set of Sub-Saharan African countries to study the impact of external income shocks on the likelihood of violence. We consider a number of external demand shocks faced by the country or the regions within countries - changes in the world demand of agricultural commodities, financial crises…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 19/11/2012
How preferential are preferential trade agreements?: analysis of product exclusions in PTAs
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
International production sharing: insights from exploratory network analysis
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
International harmonization of carbon pricing: a proposal for the United States
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Canada - certain measures affecting the renewable energy generation sector (DS412): amicus curiae submission
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
International capital flows and development: financial openness matters
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
The linkage between outcome differences in cotton production and rural roads improvements: a matching approach
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
21st century regionalism and production sharing practice
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Regional analysis of Eastern Province feeder road project: district level estimation of the poverty alleviation effects of rural roads improvements in Zambia’s Eastern Province
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 06/11/2012
Time to ship during financial crises
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 06/11/2012
Conflicts of interest, reputation, and the interwar debt crisis: banksters or bad luck?
This paper builds a new dataset with detailed information on the universe of foreign government bonds issued in New York in the 1920s and uses these data to describe the behavior of the financial intermediaries which operated in the New York market during the period leading to the interwar debt crisis. The paper starts by showing that concerns over reputation played an important role…
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 18/10/2012
Domestic and external public debt in developing countries
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 18/10/2012
Enhancing the Efficiency of Water Supply - Product Market Competition Versus Trade
In most developed countries, the provision of water is organized at a local level. The costs and tariffs vary significantly, even between adjacent water utilities. Such heterogeneity is an obvious indication of the sector's overall inefficiency and stresses a need for institutional adjustments. We show that cooperation by water trade and the introduction of competition by common…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/09/2012
Preferential trading arrangements
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 06/08/2012
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