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is based on economic history, theory and some resonant concepts from astrophysics …
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Many of the crucial debates in development economics are encapsulated in the question of economic convergence. Is there a tendency for the poorer countries to grow more rapidly than the richer countries, and thereby to converge in living standards? Some recent research on endogenous growth has...
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In this paper we analyze empirically the most important implications of two family political economy models of inflation: the "myopic? government approach and the "weak" government approach. In myopic government models inflation is the deliberate outcome of politicians strategic behavior, while...
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actual evolution of the world economy over the 1974-87 period. Our findings suggest that simple mechanistic rule …
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This paper, written for the NBER Conference on the Changing Role of the United States in the World Economy, covers the …
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Analysis based on a new measure of financial distress for 24 advanced economies in the postwar period shows substantial variation in the aftermath of financial crises. This paper examines the role that macroeconomic policy plays in explaining this variation. We find that the degree of monetary...
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We live in a new world economy characterized by financial globalization and historically low interest rates. This … propagated abroad. In previous work, we built on the theory of rational bubbles to develop a framework to think about the origins … in this world. The interest-rate and terms-of-trade spillovers produce policy externalities that make the noncooperative …
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We consider a tractable model of heterogeneous production units that features endogenous entry and productivity investment to assess the quantitative impact of policy distortions on aggregate output and establishment size. Relative to the standard factor misallocation framework, policy...
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