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Computational Analysis of APEC Trade Liberalization
(2008-06-27)
In this study, we use the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade to analyze the economic welfare effects of APEC free trade, unilateral free trade for individual APEC members, and global free trade for all countries/regions ...
Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
(2008-10-16)
Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings ...
Issues of Fairness in Dispute Settlement
(2008-06-27)
We first discuss what fairness may mean in the context of the dispute settlement process, noting the crucial relation between fairness in dispute settlement and the functioning of the trading system as a whole. We explore ...
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
(2008-10-17)
We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI)on the efficiency of domestic firms ...
Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns
(2008-10-15)
This paper analyzes data from a randomized experiment on mean returns to capital in Sri
Lankan micro-enterprises. The findings show greater returns among men than among women; indeed, returns were not different from zero ...
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance?
(2008-08-15)
We analyse a large stratified random sample of firms that provide measures of each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints. Specifically, we use the 2005 and 2002 Business ...
Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality and Growth
(2008-10-14)
This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existence of sub-caste networks ...
Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
(2008-10-17)
Difference in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional ...
Storm in a Spaghetti Bowl: FTAs and the BRIICS
(2008-12-09)
In this study we analyze the welfare and sectoral effects of a variety of options for the formation of free trade agreements by several major emerging market economies. The economies covered include: Brazil, Russia, India, ...
Macroeconomic Sources of Foreign Exchange Risk
(2008-01-25)
We address the issue of foreign exchange risk and its macroeconomic determinants in several new EU members. The joint distribution of excess returns in the foreign exchange market and the observable macroeconomic factors ...