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Are fiscal rules helpful in mitigating the impact of oil market fluctuations?
In this paper we empirically examined the role of fiscal rules in mitigating the impact of oil market fluctuations in resource-rich economies using a structural panel VAR framework following P. Pedroni (2013) and incorporating identification scheme of Kilian (2009). Our key findings can be summarized as: l) oil exporting developing countries exhibit procyclical respond to positive...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 26/02/2018
Using arbitration under Article 25 of the DSU to ensure the availability of appeals
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 22/02/2018
Global value chains and product sophistication: an empirical investigation of Indian firms
This paper analyses the impact of GVC linkages on product upgrading using the Indian firm-level dataset Prowess, and methodologies of System-GMM and Propensity score matching. Defining product upgrading as a movement towards more sophisticated products, we use Haussmann's product sophistication index to calculate a sales-weighted average sophistication level of Indian manufacturing...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 22/02/2018
India's proposal for trade facilitation of services: a breath of fresh air for global trade?
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
Appellate Body report on EU-Biodiesel: the future of China's state capitalism under the WTO AU-Dumping Agreement
China's unique economic system poses increasing challenges to the world trading system and attracts growing academic and policy debates. WTO members have frequently resorted to antidumping measures in dealing with price distortions caused by Chinese government influence in the economy. The Appellate Body's decision in the recent EU – Biodiesel dispute starts to remove the flexibility...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
A framework for rethinking NAFTA for the 21st century: policies, institutions, and regionalism
The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign made the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) a prime target in a heated and divisive debate that questioned the United States' participation in the international trading system. Though campaign rhetoric typically softens as a candidate takes office, this time may be different. President Donald Trump has called NAFTA “the worst trade deal...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
The impact of new regionalism on global value chains participation
This article investigates the impact of trade agreements on bilateral trade flows of manufactured goods. Compared to other studies, it enriches the analysis by decomposing gross trade flows into their value added components, and by considering the direction of trade flows and the content of trade agreements. The analysis reveals a clear pattern in the effects of economic integration...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
The politics of dolphin-safe tuna in the United States: balancing international and domestic constraints (1984-2016)
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
Services liberalization and GVC participation: new evidence for heterogeneous effects by income level and provisions
Participation in global value chains (GVCs) is a key element in the industrialization strategies of many developing nations. Many studies look at the determinants of GVC participation but most focus on do- mestic regulatory environments, the cost of doing business, and trade policy. This paper investigates the possibility that services also mat- ter by empirically testing for a link...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 20/02/2018
How does environmental regulation shape economic development?: a tax competition model of China
We propose a novel theoretical framework to study how environmental regulation shapes economic development in a developing country such as China. We develop a dynamic tax competition model in which local governments, located in development zones, use variation in taxes to attract workers to their jurisdictions. Their objective is to maximize tax revenue less local health costs that...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 20/02/2018
The Advocate General's opinion in Intel: more consistent enforcement across practices and instruments
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 19/02/2018
What holds African LDC exports back?: translating global trade alert data into a positive trade agenda for Africa: background report
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/02/2018
What holds back African LDC exports?: translating global trade alert data into a positive trade agenda for Africa
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 16/02/2018
A note on the economics of philanthropy
This note starts with a short review of the economic literature on philanthropy. Next, it provides some estimates of philanthropic giving in advanced and middle-income economies and discusses how innovative financial instruments can leverage charitable giving. The note concludes with a discussion of the controversial aspects of philanthropic activities.
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 09/10/2017
Public good provision in Indian rural areas: the returns to collective action by microfinance groups
Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. We provide evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake collective actions for the provision of public goods. Using a theoretical model, we show that an elected official, whose aim is to maximise re-election chances, would exert higher effort in providing public goods when private citizens undertake...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 06/10/2017
Identities and public policies: unintended effects of political reservations for women in India
Identity is an important determinant of economic behavior. A limitation of the existing literature is the focus on one identity dimension at a time. We show that the multiplicity of identity dimensions matters for economic behavior and that neglecting it may lead policy makers to overlook important, unintended effects of economic policies. We exploit the randomized nature of...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 03/10/2017
The cyclicality of international public sector borrowing in developing countries: does the lender matter?
The paper shows that international government borrowing from multilateral development banks is countercyclical while international government borrowing form private sector lenders is procyclical. The countercyclicality of official lending is mostly driven by the behavior of the World Bank (borrowing from regional development banks tends to be acyclical). The paper also shows that...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 03/10/2017
Exchange rate elasticity of exports and the role of institutions
The impact of institutional quality on the exchange rate-export relation is assessed in a panel of 33 countries and quarterly time period of 1991Q1 - 2016Q3. Empirical estimation is conducted in 2 steps. As a first step, using panel DOLS, FMOLS and PMG estimation techniques, it is confirmed that a negative and significant relation between exchange rates and exports exists. The...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 03/10/2017
Why is there so little litigation under free trade agreements?: retaliation and adjudication in international dispute settlement
Over the past decade, the WTO dispute settlement system has continued to be used extensively, contrasting with the very few disputes taken to inter-state adjudication under FTAs. This paper discusses the causes of this discrepancy, arguing that, besides specific procedural difficulties, it may be explained by a more structural difference between adjudication in a multilateral and in...
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 03/10/2017
A reappraisal of state-owned banks
We revisit the public banks debate, survey the theoretical arguments and test the robustness (and expand) the existing empirical evidence. While we find some support for the view that public banks do not allocate credit optimally, we also report indicative evidence that they exert a positive influence on private bank efficiency, and may contribute to reduce credit procyclicality....
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Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 03/10/2017
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