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Motivated by the long-standing debate on the pros and cons of competitive devaluation, we propose a new perspective on how monetary and exchange rate policies can contribute to a country's international competitiveness. We refocus the analysis on the implications of monetary stabilization for a...
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Less developed countries tend to experience higher output volatility, a fact that is, in part, explained by their specialization in more volatile sectors. This paper proposes theoretical explanations for this pattern of specialization -- with the complexity of the goods playing a central role....
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,' developed in trade theory to analyze the benefits from promoting entry of domestic firms in the manufacturing sector. In a … trade predicted by the theory are present in data and are quantitatively important …
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The paper provides an integrated analysis of globalization effects on the inflation-output tradeoff and monetary policy … flatten the Phillips curve, the tradeoff between inflation and activity. Second, the same globalization forces lead the …
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post too much through lobbying by corporate insiders. With financial globalization, national disclosure laws can have wide …
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It has recently become popular to argue that globalization has had or will soon have dramatic consequences for the … banks. In this paper, I consider three possible mechanisms through which it might be feared that globalization can undermine … globalization, even of a much more thorough sort than has yet occurred, is unlikely to weaken the ability of national central banks …
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The paper provides a unified analysis of globalization effects on the Phillips curve and monetary policy, in a New … inflation and activity. If policy makers are guided by the welfare criterion of the representative household, globalization …
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The note analyzes how globalization forces induce monetary authorities, guided in their policies by the welfare …
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In this paper we examine how monetary policy should respond to nominal exchange rates in a New Keynesian open economy model that allows for a non-trivial role for sterilised intervention. The paper develops the argument against the backdrop of the evolving policy-making environment of Asian...
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and asset prices first rise and then fall. These results are in line with the post-globalization dynamics observed in …
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