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Mills, W. Raymond - EconWPA - 2004

This article provides a defense of a sentence lifted from the Final Report of the United States Trade Deficit Review Commission. 'The savings shortfall argument falsely presumes that causation goes from savings to the trade deficit'. The savings shortfall argument is support by nothing more than...

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CAPITAL ACCOUNT OPENNESS AND INFLATION: A PANEL DATA STUDY FOR THE 1990s

Gupta, Abhijit Sen - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims to look at the relationship between capital account openness and inflation in the 1990s. It argues that widespread capital account liberalization during the early 1990s appears to have contributed to the world-wide disinflation observed during that decade. The paper attempts to...

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Exchange Rate and Trade Balance Relationship: The Experience of ASEAN Countries

Liew, Khim-sen; Lim, Kian-Ping; Hussain, Huzaimi - EconWPA - 2003

This study addresses the question of whether exchange rate changes have any significant and direct impact on trade balance. By examining the trade balances between ASEAN-5 countries and Japan for the sample period from 1986 to 1999, this study found that the role of exchange rate changes in...

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Sustaining Imperfectly Credible Trade Liberalization: Do the Rate of Tariff Reduction and the Degree of Labor Mobility Matter?

Tatum, Robert C. - EconWPA - 2005

Imperfectly credible trade liberalization can lead to balance of payment deterioration and a subsequent reversal of the reform. Therefore, this paper examines whether the likelihood of policy reversal depends on the rate of tariff reduction or the degree of labor mobility. The analysis shows...

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How Did Malawi Accumulate External Debt

Stambuli, P. Kalonga - EconWPA - 2003

Further to investigation of how Malawi accumulated external debts amounting to $2.7 billion, without a corresponding growth in the economy, exports capability or poverty reduction this paper much of the borrowing contracted during 1973-82 was consumed by balance of payments deficits caused by...

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THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AS A MONETARY PHENOMENON:AN ECONOMETRIC CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

THE THRUST OF THIS PAPER HAS BEEN TO INVESTIGATE THE THEORETICAL PROPOSITION OF THE MONETARY APPROACH TO THE THEORY OF BALANCE OF PAYMENTS ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM. THE ESSENCE OF THE APPROACH IS A CONSISTENT INSISTENCE THAT BALANCE OF PAYMENTS IS A MONETARY AND NOT A REAL PHENOMENON AS POSITED BY...

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Policy Reform in Networks Infrastructure: The Case of Mexico

Tovar-Landa, Ramiro - EconWPA - 1997

This paper addresses the recent Mexico experience in the opening to competition in networks infrastructure mainly in …

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Un Análisis de cointegración con corrección de errores de las Fugas de Capital y la Inestabilidad Política en México , An econometric model of capital flight in Mexico

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro; Andrade, Cesar Alfredo Olivas - EconWPA - 2005

Resumen El presente estudio se centra en analizar los factores que provocan el éxodo de capital en México, entre los … interés entre México y Estados Unidos y el diferencial en las tasas de inflación México-Estados Unidos. De igual forma, se … México. Asimismo, se plantean los modelos más comunes para la estimación de la fuga de capital aplicados a México. Abstract …

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Restaurant Prices and the Mexican Peso

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Coronado, Roberto - EconWPA - 2004

Mexican peso. Sample data are from El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A battery of statistical tests indicate that the …

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Short-Run Price Dynamics in Mexico

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Tinajero, Roberto - EconWPA - 2004

A theoretical model of inflationary dynamics is developed for Mexico. Estimation is carried out using ARIMA transfer … model satisfy standard statistical criteria. Results indicate that prices in Mexico respond relatively quickly to money …

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