The Latest Working Papers  

• Import Protection, Business Cycles, and Exchange Rates: Evidence from The Great Recession
  April 2012
  by Chad P. Bown and Meredith A. Crowley
  
  This research estimates the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1-2010:Q4 for the United States, European Union, and three other industrialized economies.
  Working paper 6038
  
  
  
• Workers' Age and The Impact of Trade Shocks
  

  April 2012
  by Erhan Artuc
  This paper examines the issue by estimating the lifetime mobility of workers based on the sectors in which they work.
  Working Paper 6035
  
  
  
• R&D and Aggregate Fluctuations
  March 2012
  by Erhan Artuc and Panayiotis M. Pourpourides
  
  Using data from the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis and National Science Foundation, we show how significant technology innovations' contributions are to improve sector productivity and the efficiency of physical capital.
  Working Paper 6017
  
  
  
• Putting Services and Foreign Direct Investment with Endogenous Productivity Effects in Computable General Equilibrium Models
  March 2012
  by David G. Tarr
  
  This paper summarizes several recent papers and builds policy-based computable general equilibrium models showing the dynamics of services, foreign direct investment and the endogenous productivity effect from services.
  Working Paper 6012
  
  
  
• Spillover Effects of Exchange Rates: A Study of the Renminbi
  March 2012
  by Aaditya Mattoo, Prachi Mishra, Arvind Subramanian
  
  This paper estimates how changes in China's exchange rates would affect exports from competitor countries in third-country markets --in other words, the "spillover effect."
  Working Paper 5989
  
  
  

Last updated on April 16, 2012