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The Gravity Equation in International Trade

Fratianni, Michele - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2007

issues, such as the impact of regional trade agreements, national borders and currency unions on trade, as well as the use of …

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Borders and the Constraints on Globalization

Fratianni, Michele - Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, … - 2004

National borders are a big hurdle to the expansion of the open economy. Integration today remains imperfect because … national borders translate into trading costs, including differences in monetary regimes. Political borders shelter many goods …. Borders are thicker for the small countries than the large countries. Regional trade arrangements have softened or, in some …

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Borders and the Constraints of Globalization

Fratianni, Michele - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2007

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The Gravity Equation in International Trade

Fratianni, Michele - 2014

issues, such as the impact of regional trade agreements, national borders and currency unions on trade, as well as the use of …

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Monetary Cooperation in the North American Economy

Laidler, David - University of Western Ontario, Economic Policy Research … - 2006

The economic integration of North America, unlike that of Europe, has no parallels on the political front, and U.S. economic and political interests are world-wide, while those of Canada and Mexico are predominantly regional. These facts have important implications for the degree of policy...

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Trade Effects of Monetary Integration in Large, Mature Economies: A Primer on the European Monetary Union

Souza, Lúcio Vinhas de - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

The aim of this paper is to estimate the trade gains arising from the constitution of a currency union for a set of economically large, developed nations who create a monetary union as a deliberate economic policy action: namely, for the members of the euro area. With a 1980-2001 sample, no...

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Currency unions, trade, and heterogeneity

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2018

How do trade costs affect international trade? This paper offers a new approach. We rely on a flexible gravity equation that predicts variable trade cost elasticities, both across and within country pairs. We apply this framework to the effect of currency unions on international trade. While we...

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Borders and the Constraints on Globalization

Fratianni, Michele - 2014

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Public Pension Plans and Inflation in the United States and Other Selected Jurisdictions

Brown, Alex; Firzli, M. Nicolas J.; Franzel, Joshua M. - 2022

Public pension funds are, by far, the world's preeminent asset owners, with more than $ 25 trillions in combined assets. The largest pension funds are found in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK ("pension superpowers"). How they are managed, their funding...

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Is the ‘Euro Bond’ the Answer to the Euro Sovereign Debt Crisis? What Outcome Can Investors Expect Out of Europe?

Matziorinis, Kenneth N. - 2012

This paper analyzes the causes of the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone and examines the policy alternatives confronting euro area governments. It suggests that pooling fiscal risks, creating an EU Treasury and issuing jointly-backed euro bonds is an optimal solution and the inevitable...

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