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Sinn, Stefan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1991

This paper discusses the difference between Fisherian and Ricardian trade in terms of a simple two-period model of a small open economy. Fisherian or intertemporal trade occurs when goods are traded today against the promise to deliver goods in the future. The resulting net resource transfer is...

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FDI and Income Inequality - Evidence from Latin American Economies

Herzer, Dierk; Hühne, Philipp; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We analyze whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to the typically wide income gaps in five Latin …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887002

Financing the transition: Risks and benefits of integrating into the international capital market

Buch, Claudia M.; Heinrich, Ralph P. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

for the reform states of Central and Eastern Europe. Its major findings are that domestic investment conditions matter and … controls on capital flows is highly questionable. Moreover, capital controls raise the irreversibility of investment projects … and may cause the postponement of investment decisions. The countries under review have made substantial progress towards …

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Irreversibility, endogenous mean reversion, and the investment decision of a foreign firm

Pierdzioch, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

The paper derives a valuation formula for the real option of a firm to undertake an irreversible investment in a …

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The value of waiting: Russia's integration into the international capital markets

Buch, Claudia M.; Heinrich, Ralph P.; Pierdzioch, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

Capital flight has characterized the transformation process in Russia. Inflows of foreign direct investment have been … stabilization exhibits a strong negative effect on the volume of capital inflows when investment decisions are irreversible …. Reducing uncertainty may but must not necessarily lead to more investment. The fact that monetary stabilization policies have …

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Pro-poor Growth in Bolivia: Accounting for External Shocks and Policy Reforms

Lay, Jann; Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004

This paper analyzes how major external shocks and policy reforms affect Bolivia’s ability to achieve pro-poor growth. Employing a recursive-dynamic CGE model, it considers three different scenarios: an optimistic baseline scenario that roughly extrapolates the situation prevailing before the...

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Resource Booms, Inequality, and Poverty: The Case of Gas in Bolivia

Lay, Jann; Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

resource inflows related to the gas boom, both initial foreign investment in the sector and the subsequent export earnings, as …

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Macroeconomic Adjustment in Bolivia since the 1970s: Adjustment to What, By Whom, and How? Analytical Insights from a SAM Model

Jemio, Luis Carlos - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

This paper discusses alternative adjustment patterns in Bolivia over the last three decades using a SAM-based model that explicitly separates formal from informal activities, includes separate accumulation balance adjustments for different economic agents, differentiates closures by periods of...

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Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix with a Distributional Focus ; The Case of Bolivia

Thiele, Rainer; Piazolo, Daniel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

This paper describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bolivia for the year 1997. Three distinctive features render the SAM a useful starting point for distributional analyses. First, production in the agricultural and services sector is split up into formal and informal...

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Macroeconomic Impacts of External Shocks and Anti-Shock Policies in Bolivia: A CGE Analysis

Jemio, Luis Carlos; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

Bolivia's mid-term growth prospects are promising but these prospects could be lost, due to social unrest and political instability, if the country does not solve its short-term economic problems, resulting from both external shocks and internal factors. Against this background, this paper...

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