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Oil Shocks and External Balances [PDF]
This paper studies the effects of demand and supply shocks in the global crude oil market on several measures of countries’ external balance, including the oil trade balance, the non-oil trade balance, the current account and changes in net foreign ...
Alessandro Rebucci +2 more
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An Economic Perspective on Russia's Accession to the WTO [PDF]
Russia's application for accession to the WTO is currently in its final phases and may be completed by the end of 2003. In this context, this paper provides some background information on Russia's recent policy and structural reforms, the composition and
Robert M. Stern
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Are Remittances Insurance? Evidence from Rainfall Shocks in the Philippines [PDF]
Do remittances sent by overseas migrants serve as insurance for recipient households? This paper examines how remittances sent by overseas migrants respond to income shocks experienced by Philippine households.
Dean Yang, HwaJung Choi
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A Trade Theorist’s Take on Skilled-Labor Outsourcing [PDF]
Recent concern has attended the phenomenon of skilled-labor outsourcing, in which firms in the U.S. and other advanced countries have drawn upon the services of skilled workers in developing countries for activities that they used to do at home ...
Alan V. Deardorff
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Trade Policy Options for Korea Trade Policy Options for Korea Outside the Doha Round Outside the Doha Round [PDF]
The Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations within the World Trade Organization has reached an impasse from which it may never recover. Policymakers in Korea, as in other countries, must decide how to deal with this failure and what policies to ...
Alan V. Deardorff
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A Quantitative Analysis of Tax Competition v. Tax Coordination under Perfect Capital Mobility [PDF]
Theory predicts that strategically-determined tax rates induce negative externalities across countries in relative prices, the wealth distribution and tax revenue.
Enrique G. Mendoza, Linda L. Tesar
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Simultaneous Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Replacement Due to Infective Endocarditis. [PDF]
Belli E, Paulino L, Khayata M, Patel N.
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The Influence of Actual and Unrequited Interventions [PDF]
Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press.
Freyan Panthaki, Kathryn M. E. Dominguez
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Power Laws in Firm Size and Openness to Trade: Measurement and Implications [PDF]
Existing estimates of power laws in firm size typically ignore the impact of international trade. Using a simple theoretical framework, we show that international trade systematically affects the distribution of firm size: the power law exponent among ...
Andrei A. Levchenko +2 more
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Computational Analysis of APEC Trade Liberalization [PDF]
In this study, we use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to analyze the economic welfare effects of APEC free trade, unilateral free trade for individual APEC members, and global free trade for all countries/regions covered in the Michigan ...
Kozo Koyota, Robert M. Stern
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