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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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In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers increase Southern purchasing power, which lifts long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation,...
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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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Innovation depends on exporting and, in particular, on scale and competition in export markets. We develop a theory …
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In this article, we examine the effect of the imperfect mobility of goods on international risk sharing and, through that, on the investment in risky projects, welfare and growth. We find that the welfare gain of financial market openness is not monotonic with respect to investors' risk aversion...
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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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