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that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet … monetary regimes for comparable countries. Regime duration also matters in monetary policy; older regimes are typically more …
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In modern macroeconomic models it is difficult to obtain explosive price bubbles on assets with positive net supply. This paper shows that it is possible to obtain explosive bubbles in certain situations when assets such as land are used as collateral and lenders are willing to lend freely...
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We study the evolution of the response of scal policy to monetary policy shocks in the EMU in the light of two … responses from a panel VAR, we nd that scal and monetary policy acted neutrally toward each other before the Maastricht Treaty …; scal and monetary policy acted as substitutes immediately after the Maastricht Treaty; and scal and monetary policy acted …
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We show that a simple and intuitive three-parameter equation fits remarkably well the evolution of the gross domestic product (GDP) in current and constant dollars of many countries during the times of recession and recovery. We then argue that it can be used to detect shocks and discuss its...
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power of market forces to solve any economic problem. Neoclassical economics can be blamed for creating the ideological … economics methodology, arguing the need to approach the economy as an interactive complex system, and discussing the use of … mathematics in economics, it is argued that the main object of economists' efforts should be economic illness rather than economic …
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This paper presents the results of a text based exploratory study of over 20,000 academic articles published in seven top research journals from 1960-2010. The goal is to investigate the general research foci of economists over the last fifty years, how (if at all) they have changed over time,...
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The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis … is due to a misallocation of research efforts in economics. We trace the deeper roots of this failure to the profession … economics profession has failed in communicating the limitations, weaknesses, and even dangers of its preferred models to the …
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Food security in China affects the livelihood and well-being of one-fifth of the world population. Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops...
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Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...
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Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...
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