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Should We Worry About the Fiscal Numerology of Maastricht?

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

fiscal convergence criteria written into the Treaty of Maastricht and its Protocols. In order to qualify for full membership …

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Indian Public Finance in the 1990s: Challenges and Prospects

Buiter, Willem H.; Patel, U - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This study updates and extends to the period 1988/9--1992/3 our earlier analysis of the public finances of India. The foreign exchange crisis of early 1991 forced the government to recognize the severity of the fiscal crisis it was facing and led to the implementation of a restrictive fiscal and...

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Spatial Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in US States

Bode, Eckhardt; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Waldkirch, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Abstract: This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct investments (FDI) in the US. In contrast to earlier work, this paper puts special emphasis on controlling for Marshallian externalities and other intra- and inter-regional...

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To Purgatory and Beyond: When and How Should the Accession Countries from Central and Eastern Europe Become Full Members of EMU?

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

membership. It should also be sufficient. 3) Convergence, prior to the adoption of the euro, of an EMU candidate’s inflation rate … to its euro area equilibrium inflation rate is helpful but not essential. 4) Real convergence is irrelevant for EMU … fiscal sustainability (and preferably also inflation convergence), the EMU candidate should be given a firm date and …

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Economic, Political, and Institutional Prerequisites for Monetary Union Among the Members of the Gulf Cooperation Council

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The paper reviews the arguments for and against monetary union among the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council - the United Arab Emirates, the State of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, the State of Qatar and the State of Kuwait. Both technical economic arguments...

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Persistent Differences in National Productivity Growth Rates with a Common Technology and Free Capital Mobility

Buiter, Willem H.; Kletzer, Kenneth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

The paper develops a two-country endogenous growth model to investigate possible causes for the existence and persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations, even though these countries show a common technology, constant returns to scale and perfect international capital...

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Government Ideology in Donor and Recipient Countries: Does Political Proximity Matter for the Effectiveness of Aid?

Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...

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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

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Enterprises in Transition: Macroeconomic Influences on Enterprise Decision-making and Performance

Buiter, Willem H.; Lago, Ricardo; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper analyses the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence linking enterprise performance in transition economies to the macroeconomic environment. Macroeconomic instability is traced to the unsustainability of the fiscal-financial and monetary programmes of the state and to regulatory...

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