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We analyze whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to the typically wide income gaps in five Latin American host countries. We perform country-specific and panel cointegration techniques to assess the long-run impact of inward FDI stocks on income inequality among households in...
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In diesem Beitrag wird zunächst das Wirtschaftswachstum Lateinamerikas im Zeitraum 1950-2001 im internationalen Vergleich untersucht. Daran schließt sich eine Analyse der Industrie- und Handelspolitik, der makroökonomischen Stabilisierung und der institutionellen Entwicklung in den...
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This paper assesses to what extent the arguments put forward in the consensus debate can help explain the different economic performance of Latin American and Asian countries. The paper shows that Latin America and fast-growing Asia indeed differ significantly with respect to all economic policy...
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reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth,? describing the … expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our empirical analysis suggests that this Phillips curve may be … reasonably flat. We show that the persistence of inflation and unemployment, in response to monetary policy shocks, is related to …
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This paper examines the presence of asymmetric behavior in exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to CPI inflation in 12 …
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This paper explores the links between gradual capital account liberalization and the exchange rate regime in Morocco where the process of economic and financial openness is relatively advanced. Using a game theory model with two economic agents, that are monetary authorities and domestic firms,...
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domestic currency, increases interest rates, effectively controls inflation rates and reduces output. They do not find any …
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This study investigates the relationship between inflation, inflation uncertainty and output in Tunisia using real and … nominal data. GARCH-in-mean model with lagged variance equation is employed for the analysis. The result shows that inflation … uncertainty has a positive and significant effect on the level of inflation only in the real term. Moreover, inflation uncertainty …
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This paper studies the effect of exchange rate pass-through on inflation in Tunisia over the period 2001-2009. The … authors' objective is to track inflation regimes for the Tunisian economy and to forecast its determinants. Using a Markov …-switching approach, the authors identified two main regimes for inflation in Tunisia over this period: a low and stable inflation regime …
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