NCID Non-Resident Fellow, Rabah Arezki, has published his research on recent oil price depression on the International Monetary Fund’s iMFdirect blog. The article, co-written with Olivier Blanchard (Director of the IMF Research Group), explores the causes, diverse nature, and primary causes of the international slump in oil prices since June 2014. Titled
Beata Javorcik is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on identifying market levers related to global integration and economic growth in developing countries. She gave a seminar organized by the Navarra Center for International Development of the ICS project in November 2014. This seminar explored export financing from emerging countries, focusing on Turkey.
Banu Demir (Bilken University) and Beata Javorcik are the authors of the article "Grin and Bear it: Producer-Financed Exports from an Emerging Market" presented in this seminar.
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NCID was pleased to welcome Beata Javorcik, Professor of Economics at Oxford University, as she delivered a seminar on research on export financing in emerging markets (completed with Banu Demir of Bilkent University). The central question put forth in her work is what determines how an international trade transaction is financed— or, when do exporters, importers, or third parties bear risk?
More specifically, the project focuses on competition within manufacturing/export markets and consumptio...