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Grossman, Gene M. - 2002

We study the determinants of the location of sub-contracted activity in a general equilibrium model of outsourcing and trade. We model outsourcing as an activity that requires search for a partner and relationship-specific investments that are governed by incomplete contracts. The extent of...

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Reserve Requirements on Sovereign Debt in the Presence of Moral Hazard -- on Debtors or Creditors?

Aizenman, Joshua - 1999

This paper characterizes the effects of reserve requirements on financial loans in the presence of moral hazard on the lender side (i.e., the anticipation that the taxpayer will bailout lending banks if large default will occur) and sovereign risk on the borrower side. The impacts of such...

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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2009

We develop a framework for studying trade in vertically and horizontally differentiated products. In our model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good as well as making a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution of...

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Capital Market Imperfections and the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas

Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2008

This paper studies how capital market imperfections affect the welfare effects of forming a currency union. The analysis considers a bank-only world where intermediaries compete in Cournot fashion and monitoring and state verification are costly. The first part determines the credit market...

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Volatility and the Welfare Costs of Financial Market Integration

Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 1998

This paper examines the effect of volatility on the costs and benefits of financial market integration. The basic framework combines the costly state verification model and the contract enforceability approach. The welfare effects of financial market integration are assessed by comparing welfare...

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Capital Mobility in a Second Best World -- Moral Hazard With Costly Financial Intermediation

Aizenman, Joshua - 1998

This paper studies the welfare effects of financial integration in the presence of moral hazard. Entrepreneurs face a trade off between risk and return. Banks may mitigate the resultant excessive risk by costly monitoring, where greater risk reduction requires more resources devoted to risk...

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Privatization in Emerging Markets

Aizenman, Joshua - 1998

This paper evaluates the welfare implications of privatization in emerging market economies, in countries where policies are determined by the median voter. We show that privatization may lead to large efficiency gains by changing the menu of taxes. We illustrate this point with two examples....

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Growth and Welfare in A Small Open Economy

Grossman, Gene M. - 1989

We construct a model of growth based on endogenous technological change in a small, open economy. Entrepreneurs develop new intermediate products whenever the present value of potential profits exceeds the cost of R&D. Diversity of intermediates contributes to total factor productivity in the...

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Costly Adjustment and Limited Borrowing : A Welfare Analysis of Policiesto Achieve External Balance

Aizenman, Joshua - 1987

This paper develops an analytical framework for the analysis of adjustment to adverse shocks in the presence of limited access to the international credit market. We consider an economy producing traded and non-traded goods and experiencing a permanent, unanticipated drop in the availability of...

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Sectorial Wages and the Real Exchange Rate

Aizenman, Joshua - 1986

prices. How should the structure of sectorial wages adjust in response to such a shock? This question is addressed in the … are affected by the exogenous real shock. Cost of negotiations result in labor market contracts which set nominal wages in …-indexation rules. The optimal rules alter both the absolute and the relative structure of sectorial nominal wages. We examine the …

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