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Product Variety, the Cost of Living and Welfare Across Countries

Cavallo, Alberto; Feenstra, Robert C.; Inklaar, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use the structure of the Melitz (2003) model to compare the cost of living and welfare across countries, while incorporating product variety measured by the count of barcodes or firms. For 47 countries, we compare welfare relative to the United States to conventional measures of real...

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Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers

Ha, Jongrim - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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On the Global Impact of Risk-off Shocks and Policy-put Frameworks

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2019

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may trigger severe recessions. Policy responses were more complex for developed economies with very low interest rates after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We document, however,...

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...

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The "Other" Imbalance and the Financial Crisis

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010

the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments …

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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2009

, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …

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Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …

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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008

Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...

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Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2008

In this paper we argue that the persistent global imbalances, the subprime crisis, and the volatile oil and asset prices that followed it, are tightly interconnected. They all stem from a global environment where sound and liquid financial assets are in scarce supply

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Global Business Cycles : Convergence or Decoupling?

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2008

This paper analyzes the evolution of the degree of global cyclical interdependence over the period 1960-2005. We categorize the 106 countries in our sample into three groups -- industrial countries, emerging markets, and other developing economies. Using a dynamic factor model, we then decompose...

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