Consisting of teams working with firm level data, the International Study Group on Exports and Productivity has used comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. The...

Using data covering over 100 birth-cohorts in 32 countries, we examine the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions on mortality. We find that small, but not large, booms increase contemporary mortality. Yet booms from birth to age 25, particularly those during adolescence, lower...

This approach adopts hierarchical K‐means Clustering method as a basic classing tool to assign 97 countries’ samples to different de facto exchange rate regime groups over the period of 1976 to 2008. Besides, we constructed a fisher discrimination functions based on the classification for...