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Understanding differences in business cycle phenomena between Emerging Market Economies (EMEs) and industrialized countries has been at the center of recent research on macroeconomic fluctuations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of certain credit market imperfections...
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This paper examines the extent to which foreign borrowing funds private investment, consumption and government expenditure in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand (the Anglosphere), advanced economies which have been the world's largest international borrowers since...
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US current account deficit could occur. The shocks considered include dollar depreciation, fiscal consolidation, and an … to materially reduce the US external deficit. In part, this is because second-round effects, including domestic policy … deficit involves risks to growth in the rest of the world, particularly in Japan where the authorities have limited room to …
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During the first two years of monetary union, the euro's weakness surprised most market participants. Explanations proliferated ranging from fundamentals such as differences in growth prospects to psychological factors such as herd behaviour, but no single story fully accounts for the observed...
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Based on simulations of an original DGE model of the US and the Chinese economies under various monetary regimes, we show that an overhaul of China's social safety net is capable of reducing global imbalances whatever the exchange-rate regime, provided international capital flows are allowed to...
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In the evolving debate and analysis of global imbalances, a commonly overlooked issue pertains to rising protectionism. This paper attempts to fill that gap, examining the macroeconomic implications of trade policy changes through the lens of a dynamic general equilibrium model of the world...
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We develop a five-region version (Canada, a group of oil exporting countries, the United States, emerging Asia and Japan plus the euro area) of the Global Economy Model (GEM) encompassing production and trade of crude oil, and use it to study the international transmission mechanism of shocks...
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US current account deficit could occur. The shocks considered include dollar depreciation, fiscal consolidation, and an … to materially reduce the US external deficit. In part, this is because second-round effects, including domestic policy … deficit involves risks to growth in the rest of the world, particularly in Japan where the authorities have limited room to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045912
During the first two years of monetary union, the euro's weakness surprised most market participants. Explanations proliferated ranging from fundamentals such as differences in growth prospects to psychological factors such as herd behaviour, but no single story fully accounts for the observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045928