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This paper studies the welfare effects of international investment to evade domestic taxes on domestic investment …
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This paper surveys the evolution of international capital mobility since the late-nineteenth century. It begins with an … intervention, the Great Depression emerges as the key turning point in the recent history of international capital markets. …
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rate stability and the volume of international capital flows. Capital controls, which were considerably more prevalent …
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regulated financial markets of the Bretton Woods system, a variety of financial domestic and international restrictions … during the Great Depression and through World War II only made the case for stable and low interest rates and directed credit … alongside the surge in public debts in advanced economies is documented here. This process of financial 'de-globalization' may …
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We propose a new, valuation-based measure of world equity market segmentation. While we observe decreased levels of … country's regulation with respect to foreign capital flows is important in determining its level of segmentation, we find that …
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The process of globalization is characterized by an impressive growth in global value chains, as well as the … this paper, we present a simple North-South model of international trade allowing for the joint emergence of firm … potential NGO emergence allows firms to capture gains from globalization, which would otherwise be unattainable. We show that …
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We live in a new world economy characterized by financial globalization and historically low interest rates. This … in this world. The interest-rate and terms-of-trade spillovers produce policy externalities that make the noncooperative …
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The combination of a fixed exchange rate and downward nominal wage rigidity creates a real rigidity. In turn, this real rigidity makes the economy prone to involuntary unemployment during external crises. This paper presents a graphical analysis of alternative policy strategies aimed at...
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The empirical analysis of the paper suggests that an FX policy objective and concerns about an overheating of the domestic economy have been the two main motives for the (re-)introduction and persistence of capital controls over the past decade. Capital controls are strongly associated with...
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In this paper we study whether policy makers should wait to intervene until a financial crisis strikes or rather act in a preemptive manner. We study this question in a relatively simple dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which crises are endogenous events induced by the presence of...
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