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Globalization and poverty
Harrison, Ann E. (ed.) - 2013
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world's population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in … half. How much of that improvement is because of-or in spite of-globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount … loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization's perils and promises, economists have largely remained …
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Globalization and poverty
Harrison, Ann E. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377127
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Monetary policy rules : [papers based on the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Research in Business Cycles, held at Stanford University, 1998]
Taylor, John B. (ed.) - 2001 - Paperback ed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001535296
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When Does Trade Hurt? Market, Transition and Developing Economies
Krishna, Kala - 2002
This paper argues that labor market distortions in transition and developing economies help explain differential impacts of trade liberalization. We assume that workers differ in ability. In a market economy their earnings depend on their ability. However, earnings are independent of ability due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469719
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
The paper combines insights from the recent research programs on constitutions and economic policy, and on history, institutions and growth. Drawing on cross-sectional as well as panel data, it presents new empirical results showing that the form of democracy (rather than democracy vs....
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Deflation and Monetary Policy in a Historical Perspective : Remembering the Past or Being Condemned to Repeat It?
Bordo, Michael D. - 2004
What does the historical record tell us about how to conduct monetary policy in a deflationary environment? We present a broad cross-country historical study of deflation over the past two centuries in order to shed light on current policy challenges. We first review the theoretical literature...
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International dimensions of monetary policy : [... presented at the NBER Conference "International Dimensions of Monetary Policy", which was held June 11 through 13, 2007 ... in th...
Galí, Jordi (contributor); Gertler, Mark (contributor) - 2009
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Trade Reforms, Credibility, and Development
Aizenman, Joshua - 1991
This paper analyzes the role of investment policies in regimes undergoing trade liberalization with policy makers of uncertain credibility. We consider an economy producing exportable and importable goods. The economy is liberalized, and tariffs are eliminated. The public views the reform...
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Anticipating the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel's Analysis of the Interwar Gold Standard
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2011
The intellectual response to the Great Depression is often portrayed as a battle between the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. Yet both the Austrian and the Keynesian interpretations of the Depression were incomplete. Austrians could explain how a country might get into a...
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The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995
Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The decade from 1985 to 1995 was an unprecedented period of declining barriers to global trade. The reform wave was especially pronounced in developing countries where overvalued currencies were eliminated, quantitative import restrictions dismantled, and import tariffs reduced. What accounts...
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