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The rate of return on everything, 1870-2015
Jordà, Òscar; Knoll, Katharina; Kuvshinov, Dmitry; … - 2018
This paper answers fundamental questions that have preoccupied modern economic thought since the 18th century. What is the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much? Is there a tendency for returns to fall in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794864
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Business cycles, international trade and capital flows : evidence from Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2012
American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683383
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How do financial crises redistribute risk?
Mitchener, Kris; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023
financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323137
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Goods and factor market integration : a quantitative assessment of the EU enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Opromolla, Luca David; Parro, Fernando; … - 2017
The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704526
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Do trade agreements stimulate international trade differently? : evidence from 296 trade agreements
Kohl, Tristan; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry - 2013 - This version, April 2013
In a seminal paper, Rose (2004) found that the assumed positive impact of the WTO on international trade was questionable. This finding has been scrutinized and modified in subsequent research, using different datasets, econometric methods and separating the WTO from other forms of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743775
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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union
Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371905
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Putting Canada in the penalty box : trade and welfare effects of eliminating NAFTA
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Bruno, John P. - 2019
Three years ago, very few economists would have imagined that one of the newest and fastest growing research areas in international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major countries' economic integration agreements (EIAs)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026353
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Heterogeneous economic integration agreement effects
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, Matthew W. - 2015
Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous - "trade-cost elasticity" plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309578
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How free trade can help convert the 'Arab Spring' into permanent peace and democracy
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez, Inmaculada; Wijkman, … - 2012
Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571054
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Benefits and challenges of integrating South and Southeast Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
In recent decades, Southeast Asian economies have prospered through an outward-oriented strategy, through intra-regional integration under the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) initiative and through participating in the East Asian production networks. In the 1970-80ś, South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540111