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Fiscal Spending and Economic Growth: Some Stylized Facts
Using an “event analysis”, this paper complements the cross-country approach to the study of fiscal correlates of growth. Data on fiscal expenditures and growth for a database of 140 countries (118 developing countries) over 1972–2005 are reorganized around turning points providing a summary but encompassing description of “what is in the data”. For this sample, the probability of...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
Les ressources naturelles: enjeu clef dans l'intégration régionale des pays d'Afrique du Nord et du Moyen Orient
On attend une plus grande intégration commerciale dans la région de Moyen Orient et Afrique du Nord suite à l'achèvement de l'accord sur la Zone Arabe de Libre Échange (ZALE) en 1998. Cependant, ses études récentes suggèrent que la région comprend à la fois des pays riches et des pays pauvres en ressources naturelles, comme dans la ZALE, les pays riches en ressources...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2012
Trade and Towns: On the Uneven Effects of Trade Liberalization
Trade liberalization is often believed to benefit urbanized regions more than rural regions. We explore the effects of trade liberalization on employment and wage growth of different sized towns within a country. A multi-region model of intranational adjustment predicts that small towns have more elastic labor-force responses to trade liberalization. We examine this predictions in...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
Le poids économique de la langue française dans le monde
Un nombre croissant d’études explore les différentes dimensions de la proximité linguistique favorisant les échanges commerciaux. Néanmoins, peu d’analyses se sont concentrées sur des aires linguistiques en particulier et aucune sur le cas de la langue française. Quelle est aujourd’hui l’importance de la langue française dans le commerce international ? Dans quelle mesure l’existence...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2012
Exports Dynamics: Raising Developing Countries Exports Survival through Experience
This paper focuses on developing countries exports to the OECD and obtains several important results on export dynamic, linking exports experience and exports survival. It also provides insights on the role of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in facilitating export experience and thus survival. Using product level data at the SITC 5 digit level for the 1962-2009 period, we show...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
Analyse du travail clandestin et de son évolution à Genève
Ce rapport fait suite à une demande émanant du Conseil d’État à travers le département de la sécurité, de la police et de l'environnement et dont le mandat a été confié au Professeur Flückiger actuel vice-recteur de l’Université de Genève. L’objectif de ce mandat consiste à fournir un tableau aussi complet que possible de la population clandestine dans le canton de Genève. Un...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2012
Main d’œuvre frontalière et pratiques d'embauche sur le marché du travail genevois
Le 1er juin 2002, la libre circulation des personnes est entrée en vigueur. Depuis cette date, les ressortissants suisses et ceux de l'UE ont le droit de choisir librement leur lieu de travail et de domicile au sein de la Suisse et de l’Union européenne sous condition qu'ils (elles) possèdent un contrat de travail valide ou exercent une activité indépendante. Les...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/2012
Moments structure of ℓ 1-stochastic volatility models
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
Economic incentives for pollution control in developing countries: what can we learn from the empirical literature?
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
Tempora mutantur: in search of a new testament for NEG
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Measuring welfare: latent variable models for happiness and capabilities in the presence of unobservable heterogeneity
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Testing the ‘Inaction Corridor’ in a three-regime threshold error correction model with an application to a Buffer-Stock model for US money demand
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Notes on Detecting The Effects of Non Tariff Measures
Alternative approaches to estimating the effects of nontariff measures (NTMs) on trade flows are discussed and evaluated critically. Recent econometric studies point to three results: (i) NTM restrictiveness measures based on an aggregate of ‘core’ NTMs are more restrictive than existing tariffs and, because of export composition towards agricultural products, in the aggregate, these...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
Export Diversification: What's behind the Hump?
The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 156 countries over 19 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4,991 product lines), we look for action at the intensive and extensive margins. We find a hump-shaped pattern of export diversification similar to what Imbs and Wacziarg (2003) found for...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
In Search of Market Access: Why the Doha “Plan B” for December 2011 is likely to fail Erosion from Rules of Origin (Part II)
Once again the Doha Round negotiators are struggling to reach an agreement, this time by mid-December 2011 on a “plan B” package that would give increased market access to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) under simplified rules of origin (RoO). We argue that in spite of some simplifying reforms by the EU and the US, administrative costs associated with establishing origin will...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2011
In Search of Market Access: Why the Doha “Plan B” for December 2011 is likely to fail Effective Market Access (Part I)
Once again the Doha Round negotiators are struggling to reach an agreement, this time by mid-December on a “plan B” package that would give increased market access to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the form of duty-free-quota free (DFQF) access accompanied by simplified rules of origin. Estimating ‘effective market access' to the two largest ‘preference-givers', the US...
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English / 01/01/2011
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