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Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import...

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Recent Trade Policies and An Approach to Further Reform in the Baltics, Russia, and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union

Leidy, Michael P. - 1996

This paper reviews the extent to which the Fund’s trade policy advice to the Baltic countries, Russia and other …

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The slowdown in global trade : a symptom of a weak recovery

Aslam, Aqib; Boz, Emine; Cerutti, Eugenio M.; … - 2017

Global trade growth has slowed since 2012 relative both to its strong historical performance and to overall economic growth. This paper aims to quantify the role of weak economic growth and changes in its decomposition in accounting for the slowdown in trade using a reduced form and a structural...

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Measuring competitiveness in a world of global value chains

Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Appendino, Maximiliano; Barkema, Jelle; … - 2018

All common real effective exchange rate indexes assume trade is only in final goods, despite the growing presence of global supply chains. Extending effective exchange rate indexes to include such intermediate goods can imply radically different effective exchange rate weights, depending on the...

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Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching

Moreno Badia, Marialuz - 2008

explicitly the role of export opportunities. Our results indicate that globalization does not affect firm exit significantly but … switched products as an offensive strategy to take advantage of the export opportunities created by trade liberalization …

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International Contagion Effects from the Russian Crisis and the LTCM Near-Collapse

Fry, Renee - 2002

We examine empirically the episode of extraordinary turbulence in global financial markets during 1998. The analysis focuses on the market assessment of credit risk captured by daily movements in bond spreads for twelve countries. A dynamic latent factor model is estimated using indirect...

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Determinants and Repercussions of the Composition of Capital Inflows

Carlson, Mark S. - 2002

The Mexican, Asian, and Russian crises of the mid- and late 1990s have renewed interest among policymakers in the determinants and effects of private capital inflows. This paper analyzes whether policies can affect the composition of capital inflows and whether different compositions aggravate...

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The Russian Default and the Contagion to Brazil

Baig, Taimur - 2000

This paper investigates the contagion from Russia to Brazil in late 1998 under two dimensions— players involved and the … from Russia to Brazil, the most likely place of the transmission was the off-shore Brady market. Finally, the paper does …

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The Russian Financial Crisis and its Consequences for Central Asia

Pastor, Gonzalo - 2001

This paper reviews the economic conditions in central Asia at the time of the Russian financial crisis of August 1998; the channels by which the crisis was transmitted to the central Asian region; and the policy responses. The paper concludes that, while real exchange rates of central Asian national...

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Trade Finance and Trade Flows : Panel Data Evidence From 10 Crises

Ronci, Márcio Valério - 2004

, banking crises, changes in export and import prices, and real exchange rate depreciation. To estimate the effect of … constrained trade finance on trade flows, we estimate import and export volume equations including explicitly trade financing as … constrained trade finance is a factor in explaining both export and import volumes in the short-run. A fall in external trade …

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