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Southern enlargement of the European Union and capital account liberalization: Lessons for Central and Eastern Europe
Buch, Claudia M.; Heinrich, Ralph P.; Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
The integration of the central and eastern European countries into the international capital markets has been and will be determined by the process of European Union (EU) integration. Our analysis shows that southern and eastern European countries already appear to be surprisingly similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276349
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Current Account Imbalances and Income Inequality: Theory and Evidence
Al-Hussami, Fares; Remesal, Álvaro Martín - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
account balance. We develop a model with consumption externalities and heterogeneous agents which explains how an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886828
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Stock Market Wealth, Private Saving, and the Current Account in the United States: Should We Worry?
Strauß, Hubert - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
The paper investigates by means of cointegration analysis whether the recently observed low levels of private saving and the current account balance in the United States are worrisome in the sense that they cannot be sufficiently explained by determinants which performed well in the past. Stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818865
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China's High Saving Puzzle
Ma, Guonan; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the causes of rising savings rates for the corporate, government, and household sectors, which have jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the Chinese economy are also explored.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791521
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Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China
Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded 9 percent of GDP. The current paper presents a unified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791526
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Globalisation as a 'good times' phenomenon: a search-based explanation
Edwards, T. Huw - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Globalisation is associated with long periods of sustained economic growth and credit expansion, whereas major recessions tend to lead to falling trade and protectionism. The sensitivity of trade to global economic conditions is not simply driven by policy: rather, in a model of costly search,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561130
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the "Natural Trading Partners" Hypothesis
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are "natural trading partners," while other studies claim the opposite. This paper considers the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703120
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Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method
Campos, Nauro F; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995...
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Current Account Imbalances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area: How to Rebalance Competitiveness
Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632737
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Assessing the Advantages of EMU-Enlargement for the EU and the Accession Countries: A Comparative Indicator Approach
Schweickert, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from … accession countries, claiming that monetary integration is optimal. Indicators are developed which measure convergence and … benefits from monetary integration. The more serious problem is a lack of convergence which could imply serious risks during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076110