Playing with Blocs: Quantifying Decoupling

Barthélémy Bonadio, Zhen Huo, Elliot Kang, Andrei A. Levchenko, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Hiroshi Toma & Petia Topalova
Published Date
Copyright 2026
DOI 10.1016/j.jinteco.2025.104204
CONFERENCE HELD June 21-22, 2025
Book: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2025
Book organizers: Kristin Forbes & Ricardo Reis
PUBLISHER: Elsevier, Journal of International Economics, volume 163
Series: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics

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