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Insolvency laws around the world - a statistical analysis and rules for their design

Claessens, Stijn; Klapper, Leora - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 1, pp. 9-15

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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …

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A dual policy paradox: why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2006

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...

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The global financial crisis: how similar? How different? How costly?

Claessens, Stijn; Kose, M. Ayhan; Terrones, Marco E. - 2010

This paper provides a brief analysis of three major questions raised in the context of the recent global financial crisis. First, how similar is the crisis to previous episodes? We argue that the crisis featured some close similarities to earlier ones, including the presence of credit and asset...

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Explaining the migration of stocks from exchanges in emerging economies to international centres

Claessens, Stijn; Kingebiel, Daniela; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2002

The purpose of the study is two-fold. First, it examines whether Internet usage converges across the geographical space comprising the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Second, it aims to expand the currently rather limited empirical evidence on the determinants of Internet...

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What fundamentals drive world migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003

the world migrations that give rise to public alarm. This paper offers a quantitative assessment of the economic and … demographic fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world … evidence drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration …

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Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets

Anderson, Kym; Rausser, Gordon; Swinnen, Johan - 2012

The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of the policy developments in this sector since the 1950s have been sudden and transfirmational, while others have been gradual but persistent. This article reviews and synthesizes...

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Understanding Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses

Claessens, Stijn; Kose, M. Ayhan; Laeven, Luc; … - 2013

The global financial crisis of 2007-09 has led to an intensive research program analyzing a wide range of issues related to financial crises. This paper presents a summary of a forthcoming book, Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses, that includes 19 contributions...

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Asia's Changing Role in World Trade: Prospects for South - South Trade Growth to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - 2011

from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting South–South trade. How will trade … of the world? In particular, what can be expected of developing Asia's intraregional trade and its trade with other … developing country regions? This paper addresses these questions by projecting a core baseline for the world economy from 2004 to …

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