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Uncertainty about the riskiness of new financial products was an important factor behind the U.S. credit crisis. We show that a boom-bust cycle in debt, asset prices and consumption characterizes the equilibrium dynamics of a model with a collateral constraint in which agents learn ""by...
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A view receiving increased support is that the height of trade costs in prime export sectors has a strong effect on current account balances: countries specializing in sectors that face relatively high trade costs, such as services, tend to run current account deficits, and similarly, countries...
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euro have been increasingly used for invoicing even as the share of global trade accounted for by the US and the euro area … has declined. Second, the euro is used as a vehicle currency in parts of Africa, and some European countries have seen … significant shifts toward euro invoicing. Third, as suggested by the dominant currency paradigm, countries invoicing more in US …
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