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Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
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We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...
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We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...
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process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development …, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, sound … unavoidable tensions inherent in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with financial globalization. In light of these …
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The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …
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globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies … of countries but divergence (or decoupling) between them. -- Globalization ; business cycles ; macroeconomic fluctuations …
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In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international … better risk sharing outcomes during the recent period of globalization. Developing countries have, by and large, been shut … flows may help explain why emerging markets have not been able to realize this presumed benefit of financial globalization …
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