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The Political Economy of International Regulatory Cooperation
The American Economic Review, 2023 We examine international regulatory agreements that are negotiated under lobbying pressures from producer groups. The way in which lobbying influences the cooperative setting of regulatory policies, as well as the welfare impacts of international ...
G. Maggi, Ralph Ossa
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The American Economic Review, 2018 This paper documents a significant association between the exposure of an individual or area to the UK government’s austerity-induced welfare reforms begun in 2010, and the following: the subsequent rise in support for the UK Independence Party, an ...
Thiemo Fetzer
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Sovereign Risk and Bank Lending: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Disaster
Social Science Research Network, 2023 We quantify the sovereign-bank doom loop by using the 1999 Marmara earthquake as an exogenous shock leading to an increase in Turkey’s default risk. Our theoretical model illustrates that for banks with higher exposure to government securities, a higher ...
Vivian Z. Yue +3 more
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European Journal of Economic and Financial Research, 2023 This study seeks to analyze the impact of investment in road, rail, and port infrastructure on Angola’s exports growth, using imports and GDP per capita as control variables. This study uses annual data for the period 2000-2020.
Pedro Manuel Campos
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International Friends and Enemies
Social Science Research Network, 2020 We examine whether, as countries become more economically dependent on a trade partner, they realign politically toward that trade partner. We use network measures of economic exposure to foreign productivity growth derived from the class of trade models
Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, S. Redding
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Staggered Difference-in-Differences in Gravity Settings: Revisiting the Effects of Trade Agreements
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsWe nest an extended two-way fixed effect (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences within the structural gravity model. To test the ETWFE, we estimate the effects of regional trade agreements (RTAs). The results suggest that RTA estimates
Arne J. Nagengast, Y. Yotov
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'New' Views on the Optimum Currency Area Theory: What is Emu Telling Us?
Social Science Research Network, 2002 This paper surveys the optimum currency area (OCA) literature. It is organised into four phases: the 'pioneering phase' which put forward the OCA theory and its properties, the 'reconciliation phase' when its diverse facets were combined, the ...
F. Mongelli
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, 2021 In January 2018, the 10th African Union (AU) Summit of African Heads of States and Governments was held in Kigali. At this occasion, 44 countries had signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. In this study, it is pointed out that
Manfred Kouty
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Trade Costs in the Developing World: 1995-2012
, 2015 We use new data on trade and production in 167 countries to infer estimates of trade costs manufactured goods and agriculture for 1995-2012. Trade costs are strongly declining in country income level.
J. Arvis, Y. Duval, Ben Shepherd
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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2017 Using simulations from a multi-country neoclassical growth model, we analyze several post-Brexit scenarios. First, the United Kingdom unilaterally imposes tighter restrictions on FDI and trade from other EU nations. Second, the European Uunion retaliates
Ellen R Mcgrattan, Andrea Waddle
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