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International Liquidity : The Fiscal Dimension

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2011

This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide …

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EMU : Ready, or Not?

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

In this paper I focus on two specific hazard areas in the transition from Stage Two to Stage Three of European economic and monetary union (EMU), as well as on some key problems of Stage Three that EMU's monetary and fiscal structures appear ill-prepared to handle. The transitional hazards are...

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Monetary and Fiscal Remedies for Deflation

Auerbach, Alan - 2004

Prevalent thinking about liquidity traps suggests that the perfect substitutability of money and bonds at a zero short … benefits and facilitate the use of powerful fiscal policy tools even in a liquidity trap. In this paper, we consider an … alternative approach that has been suggested for use in a liquidity trap, a scheduled increase in consumption tax rates. We find …

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Time of Troubles : The Yen and Japan's Economy, 1985-2008

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2009

during the period of Japan's bubble economy and subsequent stagnation. The yen experienced epic gyrations over that period … the price of oil. Since the mid-1990s, the yen's real exchange rate has generally followed a depreciating trend and Japan …

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Vying for Foreign Direct Investment : A EU-type Model of Tax Competition

Razin, Assaf - 2006

This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all,...

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The Unsustainable US Current Account Position Revisited

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2004

We show that the when one takes into account the global equilibrium ramifications of an unwinding of the US current account deficit, currently estimated at 5.4% of GDP, the potential collapse of the dollar becomes considerably larger--more than 50% larger--than our previous estimates (Obstfeld...

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Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Flows

Goldstein, Itay - 2010

liquidity shocks, the liquidation price they can get will be lower when buyers know that they have more information on … expectation of future liquidity problems export relatively more FPI than FDI, and (2) this effect strengthens as the source … source countries from 1985 to 2004. Our key variable is the predicted severity of liquidity shock, as proxied by episodes of …

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Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Outflows

Goldstein, Itay - 2008

country. Based on a theoretical model, we predict that (1) source countries with higher probability of aggregate liquidity … 140 source countries from 1985 to 2004. Our key variable is the probability of an aggregate liquidity crisis, estimated … that the probability of a liquidity crisis has a strong effect on the composition of foreign equity investment. Furthermore …

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A Brazilian Debt-Crisis Model

Razin, Assaf - 2002

We develop a model that captures important features of debt crises of the Brazilian type. Its applicability to Brazil lies in the fact that (1) in Brazil the macro fundamentals were sound (e.g., a primary surplus, a relatively low debt/GDP ratio, etc.); and (2) in the Brazilian case the trigger...

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A Brazilian Debt-Crisis

Razin, Assaf - 2002

We develop a stylised model of multiple equilibria, with country risk spreads at the focus of the analysis. Fears that the country default on its debt triggers a reversal in the direction of inflows of international financial capital raise interest-rate spreads and thus the cost of servicing the...

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