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. There is a growth externality in the tradable sector and agents have imperfect access to international financial markets. By … the tradable sector that boosts growth. Financial frictions generate imperfect substitutability between private and public … provide liquidity during crises amplifies the positive impact of reserve accumulation on growth. We use the model to compare …
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with weak productivity growth. We study a two-sector, tradable and non-tradable, small open economy. The tradable sector is … the engine of growth, and productivity growth is increasing in the amount of labor employed by firms in the tradable … stagnant productivity growth. We show that capital controls can be welfare-enhancing and can be used as a second best policy …
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This paper shows that in a non-representative agent model in which households face short selling constraints and labor income risk, in the form of both uninsurable shocks and a common aggregate component, small differences in the correlation between aggregate labor income shocks and domestic and...
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Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper applies notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until they...
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How big a boost to long run growth can countries expect from the ICT revolution? I use the results of growth accounting … and the insights from a two-sector growth model to answer this question. The use of a two-sector rather than a one … expected to fall in the future. According to the two-sector model, the main boost to growth comes from ICT use, not ICT …
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This paper uses a model of growth and imperfect capital mobility across multiple economies to characterize the dynamics …
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This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a … perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin … factor inputs and technology for growth …
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capital accumulation and TFP growth reflect convergence along two margins. One margin (between industry) is a massive …
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This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling...
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neoclassical growth model. The short-run revenue loss after an income tax cut is partly - or, depending on parameter values, even … completely - offset by growth in the long-run, due to the resulting incentives to further accumulate capital. We study how the …
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