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While technologies and policy fundamentals are presumably different internationally, inducing differences in growth rates, capital mobility is shown to be a powerful force in achieving complete growth rate equalization across countries. We provide evidence in support of this effect, showing that...
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This paper surveys key developments in the theory of international migration and international trade, and provides a …
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This paper links business cycle volatility to barriers on international mobility of goods and capital. Theory predicts …
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Free movements of goods and capital across national borders have important implications for both direct and indirect taxation. The paper discusses the following issues: (a) The implications of different treatments of resident capital income originating abroad and nonresident capital income...
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In recent years the world economy has been subject to large and unsyncronized changes in fiscal policies, high and … builds on a two-country model of the world economy which is applied to the analysis of the transmission and effects of …
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This paper deals with the international transmission of the effects of budget deficits on world rates of interest and … spending. The model assumes a two-country world within which capital markets are integrated, individuals behave rationally, and … horizon was finite. This formulation generates asimple pattern of aggregate behavior of the two-country world, and it assures …
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economy-wide sales of external assets. Consistent with our theory, we find that the predicted liquidity shock has a strong …
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The literature has not being able to identify clear-cut real effects of exchange-rate regimes on output growth. Similarly, no definitive view emerges from the literature in regard to the effects of open capital markets on macroeconomic performance. The paper attributes the failure of the...
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This paper studies sharp reductions in current account deficits and large exchange rate depreciations in low- and middle-income countries. It examines which factors help predict the occurrence of a reversal or a currency crisis, and how these events affect macroeconomic performance. It finds...
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This paper proposes a method for computing tax rates using national accounts and revenue statistics. Using this method we construct time-series of tax rates for large industrial countries. The method identifies the revenue raised by different taxes at the general government level and defines...
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