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results from the requirement that non-traded inputs are used in the investment process. In the short-run, though, the effects …
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This paper analyzes the strategic role of investment from a debtor country’s perspective. The framework is one in which … this framework, the paper shows that productive investment may increase or decrease the bargaining power of the debtor …
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Observers have often characterized asset markets as being subject to periods of tranquility and periods of turbulence. Until recently, however, researchers were unable to produce closed-form asset pricing formulas in a model environment of time-varying risk. Some work by Abel provided us with...
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This paper analyzes reasons for the high post-war correlations of saving and investment, both across countries and over …
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This paper develops a model of an open economy which employs distortionary taxes to finance public consumption, and with an access to the world capital market. The paper examines the efficiency of quantity restrictions on capital exports and the accompanying set of taxes. A distinction is made...
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Enhancing public and private investment, but also ensuring that this translates into higher growth and employment, have … long been key policy challenges in Arab countries. Reflecting an improvement in policies and global conditions, investment … differences across the region-investment has on average been somewhat weaker than in peer countries and less effective at …
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The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) countries financial system has increasingly come under stress particularly through weakly supervised nonbank and offshore financial sectors with knock-on effects to domestic banks. The staff report focuses on ECCU’s 2009 discussion on common...
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investment is high. The ECCB-operated quasi-currency board arrangement (CBA) has continued to deliver price and exchange rate …
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to have relatively high effective tax rates on equity-financed investment. The analysis suggests that both countries …
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This Selected Issues paper on Germany reviews investment trends and business capital stock in Organization for Economic …
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