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The current account as a dynamic portfolio choice problem
Didier, Tatiana - 2009
. These decisions can be decomposed into a portfolio rebalancing and a portfolio growth component. This paper provides … empirical evidence of the importance of portfolio rebalancing for the dynamics of the current account. The authors evaluate the … predictions of a partial-equilibrium model of the current account with dynamic portfolio choices, in which portfolio rebalancing …
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Neither a borrower nor a lender : does China's zero net foreign asset position make economic sense?
Dollar, David - 2005
"China in the past few years has emerged as a net foreign creditor on the international scene with net foreign assets slightly greater than zero percent of wealth. This is surprising given that China is a relatively poor country with a capital-labor ratio about one-fifth the world average and...
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The dot-com bubble, the Bush deficits, and the U.S. current account
Kraay, Aart - 2005
"Over the past decade the United States has experienced widening current account deficits and a steady deterioration of its net foreign asset position. During the second half of the 1990s, this deterioration was fueled by foreign investment in a booming U.S. stock market. During the first half...
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Achieving effective social protection for all in Latin America and the Caribbean : from right to reality
Ribe, Helena - 2010
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Public works as a safety net : design, evidence, and implementation
Subbarao, K. (contributor) - 2012
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Insurance against covariate shocks : the role of index-based insurance in social protection in low-income countries of Africa
Alderman, Harold - 2007
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Social protection in a crisis : Argentina's Plan Jefes y Jefas
Galasso, Emanuela - 2003
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Dividing the spoils : pensions, privatization, and reform in Russia's transition
Kapstein, Ethan B. - 2000
The gains from the transition in post-communist Russia were captured by the new managerial class, which won rents from the state in the form of privatized enterprises, state subsidies, credits, and opportunities for tax evasion. Those rents reduced state revenues that could have supported social...
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