Working Papers
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IPC 120 |
Assessing Ukrainian Banking Performance Before and After the Crisis
2011 Iryna Shkura - Alfred Nobel University |
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IPC 119 |
Labor Standards and Human Rights: Implications for International Trade and Investment
19-August-2011 Drusilla K. Brown - Tufts University |
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IPC 118 |
My Studies in International Economics
15-July-2011 Robert M. Stern - University of Michigan and UC-Berkeley |
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IPC 117 |
Uncertainty Equivalents: Testing the Limits of the Independence Axiom
10-August-2011 James Andreoni - University of California, San Diego |
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IPC 116 |
The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers
September-2011 Jesse M. Cunha - Naval Postgraduate School |
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IPC 115 |
Government Intervention and Strategic Trading in the
U.S. Treasury Market
25-February-2011 Paolo Pasquariello - University of Michigan, Ross School of Business |
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IPC 114 |
The Effect of Competition on Trade Patterns: Evidence from the Collapse of International Cartels
February-2011 Margaret Levenstein - University of Michigan |
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IPC 113 |
Free Trade Agreements and Governance of the Global Trading System
03-January-2011 Andrew G. Brown - Amherst, MA |
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IPC 112 |
Globalization, Domestic Institutions and Enforcement of Labor Law: Evidence from Latin America 08-November-2010 Lucas Ronconi - Universidad Torcuato di Tella |
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IPC 111 |
Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya 26-September-2010 Pascaline Dupas - UCLA, BREAD and NBER |
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IPC 110 |
Trade in Financial Services - Has the IMF Been Involved Constructively?*
10-October-2010 Robert M. Stern - University of Michigan * This paper is published in Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research -- Special Issue on International Trade Policy (Vol. 5, Issue 1, February 2011) |
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IPC 109 |
Fairness in the WTO Trading System
09-October-2010 Andrew G. Brown - Amherst, MA |
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IPC 108 |
Computational Analysis of the Menu of U.S. - Japan Trade Policies
08-October-2010 Drusilla K. Brown - Tufts University |
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IPC 107 |
Political Agency and the Responsibility Paradox: Multinationals and Corporate Social Responsibility
07-October-2010 Gerald F. Davis - Stephen M. Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan |
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IPC 106 |
Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
September-2010 Sugata Marjit - Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India and The Leverhulme Centre for Research in Globalization and Economic Policy University of Nottingham, UK |
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IPC 105 |
Direct and Indirect Effects of Voluntary Certification: Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program
September-2010 Andrew Foster - Brown University |
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IPC 104 |
Culture, Institutions and The Wealth of Nations
September-2010 Yuriy Gorodnichenko - University of California, Berkeley and NBER |
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IPC 103 |
Corruption and Product Market Competition: An Empirical Investigation
April-2010 Michael Alexeev - Indiana University |
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IPC 102 |
Incumbents’ Incentives and Party Building in a Federal System: New Evidence from Russia
24-August-2010 Olesya Tkacheva - University of Rochester |
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IPC 101 |
Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence
4-August-2010 Mirco Tonin - University of Southampton |
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IPC 100 |
Informality, productivity, and enforcement in West Africa: A firm level analysis
24-June-2010 Nancy C. Benjamin - World Bank |
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IPC 99 |
India’s Peculiar Pattern of Growth: The Impact of Labor Regulations on its Origin and Persistence
23-June-2010 Dipak Mazumdar - University of Toronto |
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IPC 98 |
Informal Payments and the Financing of Health Care in Developing and Transition Countries
23-June-2010 Maureen Lewis - World Bank |
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IPC 97 |
Institutions and economic performance: Why is so little explained?
22-June-2010 Simon Commander - IE Business School, Madrid, EBRD and Altura Advisers |
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IPC 96 |
Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry
22-June-2010 Saul Estrin - London School of Economics and Political Science |
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IPC 95 |
The Plaintiff’s Role in Enforcing a Court Ruling: Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico
02-June-2010 David S. Kaplan - Inter-American Development Bank |
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IPC 94 |
Does Foreign Exchange Reserve Decumulation Lead to Currency Appreciation?
15-May-2010 Kathryn M. E. Dominguez - University of Michigan and NBER |
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IPC 93 |
Foreign Ownership and Corporate Restructuring: Direct Investment by Emerging-Market Firms in the United States
15-May-2010 Anusha Chari - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER |
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IPC 92 |
International Reserves and Underdeveloped Capital Markets
15-May-2010 Kathryn M. E. Dominguez - University of Michigan and NBER |
| IPC 91 |
Comparative Adavantage, Growth, and the Gains from Trade and Globalization: A Festschrift in Honor of Alan V. Deardorff
05-April-2010 Various Authors |
| IPC 90 |
The Global Financial Meltdown and Financial Regulation: Shirking and Learning - Canada in an International Context 23-December-2009 Stephen L. Harris - Carleton University |
| IPC 89 |
International Trade, Labour and the WTO
19-June-2006 Drusilla K. Brown - Tufts University |
| IPC 88 |
Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints
December-2009 Juan Carlos Hallak - Universidad de San Andres and NBER |
| IPC 87 |
Economic Effects of "Leveling the Playing Field" in International Trade
9-July-2009 Alan Deardorff - University of Michigan |
| IPC 86 |
Self-Employment in Household Enterprises and Access to Credit: Gender Differences during India's Rural Banking Reform
June-2009 Nidhiya Menon - Brandeis University |
| IPC 85 |
The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from
Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals
18-April-2009 Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal - Stockholm School of Economics |
| IPC 84 |
Cross-Border Target Selection and Investor Protection Disparity
April-2009 Yao Lu - University of Michigan, Ross School of Business |
| IPC 83 |
Prospect Theory and Market Liquidity
April-2009 Paolo Pasquariello - University of Michigan, Ross School of Business |
| IPC 82 |
Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States
March-2009 Anusha Chari - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| IPC 81 |
Structural Economic Change and Foreign Acquisition
Jan-2009 Hein Bogaard - University of Michigan |
| IPC 80 |
The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers of Gary Saxonhouse, Volumes I and II
Jan-2009 Robert Stern - University of Michigan Gavin Wright - Stanford University Hugh Patrick - Columbia University |
| IPC 79 |
Storm in a Spaghetti Bowl: FTAs and the BRIICS
9-Dec-2008 Kozo Kiyoto - Yokohama National University and University of Michigan |
| IPC 78 |
Wage Ceiling and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine’s Transition
21-Oct-2008 Ina Ganguli - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard |
| IPC 77 |
Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
17-Oct-2008 Stepan Jurajda - CERGE-EI, CEPR, IZA |
| IPC 76 |
Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
17-Oct-2008 Yuriy Gorodnichenko - University of California, Berkeley |
| IPC 75 |
Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
17-Oct-2008 T.H. Gindling - University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| IPC 74 |
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence form 17 Emerging Market Economies
17-Oct-2008 Yuriy Gorodnichenko - University of California, Berkeley |
| IPC 73 |
Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance?
16-Oct-2008 Shwetlena Sabarwal - PREM Gender, World Bank |
| IPC 72 |
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
16-Oct-2008 Klara Sabirianova - WDI, University of Michigan, CEPR and IZA Bonn |
| IPC 71 |
Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How do Cash Transfers Affect Ineligibles Consumption?
15-Oct-2008 Manuela Angelucci - University of Arizona |
| IPC 70 |
Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns
15-Oct-2008 Suresh de Mel - University of Peradeniya |
| IPC 69 |
The Benefits of Financial Sector Liberalization for Developing Countries: A Case Study of Ethiopia
14-Oct-2008 Kozo Kiyota - Yokohama National University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| IPC 68 |
Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth
14-Oct-2008 Kaiyan Munshi - Brown University and NBER |
| IPC 67 |
Decentralization and Water Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Re-Drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil
14-Oct-2008 Molly Lipscomb - Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| IPC 66 |
Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally targeted Subsidies in Turkey.
14-Oct-2008 Gordon Betcherman - World Bank |
| IPC 65 |
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance?
15-Aug-2008 Simon Commander - EBRD and London Business School |
| IPC 64 |
Computational Analysis of APEC Trade Liberalization
27-Jun-2008 Kozo Kiyota - Yokohama National University and University of Michigan |
| IPC 63 |
Issues of Fairness in Dispute Settlement
9-Jun-2008 Andrew G. Brown - Former Director, United Nations' General Analysis and Policies Division |
| IPC 62 |
Macroeconomic Sources of Foreign Exchange Risk in New EU Members
25-Jan-2008 Tigran Poghosyan - University of Groningen and CERGE-EI |
| IPC 61 |
Fiscal convergence and discipline in monetary unions: Evidence from the European Union
25-Jan-2008 Evzen Kocenda - CERGE-EI, Charles University and the Academy of Sciences, Prague; The William Davidson Institute (WDI), Michigan; CEPR, London; and EABCN. |
| IPC 60 |
Some Reflections on Nurkse's
"Patterns of Trade and Development" 25-Jan-2008 Alan Deardorff - University of Michigan |
| IPC 59 |
Issues in U.S.-ROK Economic Relations
1-Nov-2007 Kiyoto Kozo - Yokohama National University and University of Michigan |
| IPC 58 |
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
16-Oct-2007 Yuriy Gorodnichenko - UC Berkeley |
| IPC 57 |
The Multilateral Trading System
15-Oct-2007 Robert Stern - University of Michigan |
| IPC 56 |
Exploring Gender Wage “Discrimination” in South Africa, 1995-2004: A Quantile Regression Approach
13-Sep-2007 Miracle Ntuli - IZA |
| IPC 55 |
Does Employment Generation Really Matter for Poverty Reduction?
13-Sep-2007 Pierella Paci - Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank |
| IPC 54 |
Labor Productivity, Growth, Informal Wage and Capital Mobility: A General Equilibrium Analysis
13-Sep-2007 Sugata Marjit- Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India |
| IPC 53 |
Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1988: Evidence From Personal Data 1997-2006
13-Sep-2007 Thoman Dohmen- IZA and DIW |
| IPC 52 |
Job Creation and Job Desription in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets
13-Sep-2007 Mariano Bosch- London School of Economics |
| IPC 51 |
Do Personality Differences Explain the Gender Pay Gap? Evidence from Three Transition Economies.
13-Sep-2007 Anastasia Semykina- Department of Economics, Florida State University |
| IPC 50 |
Romani Employment during the Post-Communist Transition of Hungary
13-Sep-2007 Gabor Kertesi- Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy |
| IPC 49 |
Trade and Labor Standards: A Review of the Theory and New Empirical Evidence
13-Sep-2007 Vivek Dehejia- Department of Economics
Carleton University & CESifo |
| IPC 48 |
Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment
13-Sep-2007 Ann Harrison- UC Berkeley, NBER |
| IPC 47 |
Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
12-Sep-2007 Yuriy Gorodnichenki- University of Michigan |
| IPC 46 |
Wages in Kenya
12-Sep-2007 Mabel Andalon- Cornell University |
| IPC 45 |
Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Different Types of Workers in Honduras
12-Sep-2007 Tim Gindling- Economics Department
University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| IPC 44 |
Entrepreneurial Entry in Developing Economies: Modeling Interactions Between the Formal and Informal Sector
12-Sep-2007 John Bennett and Saul Estrin |
| IPC 43 |
Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
12-Sep-2007 Mariano Bosch- London School of Economics |
| IPC 42 |
Employment Elasticity in Organized Manufacturing in India
12-Sep-2007 Dipak Mazumdar- University of Toronto |
| IPC 41 |
Migrationm Self-Selection and Returns to Education in the WAMEU
12-Sep-2007 Philippe de Vreyer- University of Lille II and DIAL, Paris |
| IPC 40 |
Women’s Working Status and Physical Spousal Violence in India
12-Sep-2007 Yoo-Mi Chin- Department of Economics, Michigan State University |
| IPC 39 |
Is There A Glass Ceiling in Morocco? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data
12-Sep-2007 Chrisophe Nordman- IRD, DIAL |
| IPC 38 |
Why Don't Firms Take Advantage of More Flexible Labor Options? Regulation, Enforcement and Corruption
12-Sep-2007 Mary Hallward-Driemier- World Bank |
| IPC 37 |
Can Social Problems Reduce Productivity and Growth? A Hypothesis for Mexico
11-Sep-2007 Santiago Levy- Brookings Institute |
| IPC 36 |
Analysis of Attrition Patterns in the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey, 2000-2002
11-Sep-2007 Insan Tunali- Dept. of Economics Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| IPC 35 |
Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa?
11-Sep-2007 Abhijit Banerjee- Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| IPC 34 |
Education and Youth Unemployment in South Africa
11-Sep-2007 David Lam- University of Michigan |
| IPC 33 |
Monopsonistic Competitive Formal and Informal Labor Markets
11-Sep-2007 Ted To- Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| IPC 32 |
Modeling Labor Market Policy in Developing Countries
11-Sep-2007 Gary Fields- Cornell University |
| IPC 31 |
A Review of Charan Devereaux, Robert Lawrence, and Michael D. Watkins, Case Studies in US Trade Negotiation: Making the Rules and Resolving Disputes
29-Aug-2007 Robert Stern- University of Michigan |
| IPC 30 |
Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies June 2007 Saul Estrin - London School of Economics , UK, CEPR and IZA |
| IPC 29 |
The Case for Financial Sector Liberalization in Ethiopia
24-Aug-2007 Kozo Kyoto - Yokohama National University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| IPC 28 |
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
23-Aug-2007 Simon Commander - EBRD and London Business School |
| IPC 27 |
How to Increase R & D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
15-Jun-2007 Polona Domadenik - Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana & Institute for South-East Europe (ISEE) |
| IPC 26 |
China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European
15-Jun-2007 Jan Svejnar - University of Michigan |
| IPC 25 |
Unemployment in East and West Europe
15-Jun-2007 Daniel Műnich - CERGE-EI, Prague |
| IPC 24 |
A Product-Quality View of The Linder Hypothesis
20-Mar-2007 Juan Carlos Hallak - University of Michigan, Department of Economics |
| IPC 23 |
Why Is Multinational Status Important? Evidence from Job Creation and Job Destruction in Japan
20-Mar-2007 Kozo Kiyota - Faculty of Business Administration, Yokohama National University |
| IPC 22 |
The Microeconomic Implications of Input Market Regulations: Cross-Country Evidence from Within the Firm
19-Mar-2007 Francine Lafontaine |
| IPC 21 |
Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A new Statistic, and Evidence from Chile
12-Mar-2007 Amil Petrin - Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago and NBER |
| IPC 20 |
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
26-Feb-2007 Simon Commander - EBRD and London Business School |
| IPC 19 |
Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements
18-Sep-2006 Andrew G. Brown - Former Director, United Nations' General Analysis and Policies Division |
| IPC 18 |
Currencies, Competition, and Clans
30-Aug-2006 Dirk Engelmann - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| IPC 17 |
An Analysis of the U.S.-SACU FTA Negotiations
17-Aug-2006 Drusilla K. Brown - Tufts University |
| IPC 16 |
Structural Changes in Transition Economies: Breaking the News or Breaking the Ice?
17-Aug-2006 Balázs Égert - Oesterreichische Nationalbank; EconomiX at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and the William Davidson Institute |
| IPC 15 |
When and Why Post-Communist Parties Become More Liberal
24-May-2006 John E. Jackson - University of Michigan |
| IPC 14 |
Good Deflation/Bad Deflation and Japanese Economic Recovery
24-May-2006 Gary Saxonhouse - University of Michigan |
| IPC 13 |
Concepts of Fairness in the Global Trading System
24-May-2006 Andrew G Brown - Former Director, United Nations' General Analysis and Policies Division |
| IPC 12 |
Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and Measured Wage Inequality: Evidence from India
24-May-2006 Jagadeesh Sivadasan - University of Michigan |
| IPC 11 |
Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine's Transition
24-May-2006 Ina Gangulia - Harvard University |
| IPC 10 |
The Evolution of an Economic and Political Middle Class in Transition Countries
6-Apr-2006 Daniel Berkowitz - University of Pittsburgh, Deparment of Economics |
| IPC 9 |
Are Financial Crises Indeed "Crises" Evidence from the Emerging ADR Market
6-Apr-2006 Paolo Pasquariello - Ross School of Business at University of Michigan |
| IPC 8 |
Globalization's Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries that Do Not Participate?
6-Apr-2006 Alan V. Deardorff - University of Michigan |
| IPC 7 |
Exchange Rate Volatility and Regime Change: Visegrad Comparison
6-Apr-2006 Evzen Kocenda - CERGE-EI |
| IPC 6 |
Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Income Distributions in Poland and Russia
6-Apr-2006 Daniel Berkowitz - Dapartment of Economics, University of Pittsburgh |
| IPC 5 |
Can Financial Frictions Account for the Cross-Section Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle?
6-Apr-2006 Yan Bai - Department of Economics, Arizona State University |
| IPC 4 |
The Responsibility Paradox: Multinational Firms and Global Corporate Social Responsibility
6-Apr-2006 Gerald F. Davis - Stephen M. Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan |
| IPC 3 |
Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis
6-Apr-2006 Albert Park - Department of Economics, University of Michigan |
| IPC 2 |
What Defines "News" in Foreign Exchange Markets?
6-Apr-2006 Kathryn Dominguez - University of Michigan and NBER |
| IPC 1 |
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?*
6-Apr-2006 Klara Sabirianova - Georgia State University |