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Volatility, employment and the patterns of FDI in emerging markets

Aizenman, Joshua - 2002

even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …

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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

Autor, David - 2017

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers increase Southern purchasing power, which lifts long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation,...

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Country Risk and Incentives Schemes

Aizenman, Joshua - 1986

The purpose of this paper is to address the role of endogenous default penalties that are contingent upon the intensity of default on the part of the borrowing nation, and to evaluate the effects of contingency plans that make the interest rate dependent upon variables that are correlated with...

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Labor Markets and the Choice of Technology in an Open Developing Economy

Aizenman, Joshua - 1986

degree to which real wages and productivity depend on external factors while at the …expected productivity gains, the investment cost associated with the modern …

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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007

This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a traditional or a modern technology. Public spending is productive and "time to build" requires expenditure in both periods for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a...

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Endogenous Financial Openness : Efficiency and Political Economy Considerations

Aizenman, Joshua - 2003

This paper studies the endogenous determination of financial openness. We outline a framework where financial openness is endogenously determined by the authority's choice of financial repression as a taxation device, and where the private sector determines endogenously the magnitude of capital...

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Optimal Tax and Debt Policy with Endogenously Imperfect Creditworthiness

Aizenman, Joshua - 1996

This paper shows that the patterns of optimal tax rates and borrowing in the presence of endogenous borrowing constraints differ considerably from the patterns observed with fully integrated capital markets. We study a developing country characterized by a costly tax collection. Its access to...

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Volatility, Investment and Disappointment Aversion

Aizenman, Joshua - 1995

This study uncovers a statistically significant negative correlation between volatility and private investment over the 1970-93 period in a set of almost fifty developing countries and provides a possible interpretation of this result by using the disappointment- aversion expected utility...

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Investment in New Activities and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty

Aizenman, Joshua - 1995

Recent literature has highlighted the importance of new activities in development and growth. It was shown that trade distortions such as tariffs are associated with first-order costs stemming from the induced drop in the formation of new activities. This paper demonstrates that uncertainty may...

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