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market size, or government spending. We introduce trade costs and endogenous varieties in a two-country general … and differentiation costs also have higher GDP, but supply a larger array of goods at improved terms of trade. The sign of … the international welfare spillovers depends on terms of trade, but also on consumers’ taste for variety. Higher domestic …
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international trade in equity that encompasses complete and incomplete asset market scenarios. By separating asset prices and …
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This paper describes the stylized facts characterizing periods of exceptionally large capital inflows in a sample of 70 middle- and high-income countries over the last 35 years. We identify 155 episodes of large capital inflows and find that these events are typically accompanied by an economic...
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This paper extends the analysis of the forthcoming fall in the dollar by Blanchard, Giavazzi and Sà 2005), using a model which incorporates forward-looking consumers. It provides additional underpinnings for the idea of a rapid adjustment in the value of the dollar. We analyze what will happen...
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Before the crisis, there were strong arguments for reducing global imbalances. As a result of the crisis, there have been significant changes in saving and investment patterns across the world and imbalances have narrowed considerably. Does this mean that imbalances are a problem of the past?...
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The surge in international asset trade since the early 1990s has lead to renewed interest in models with international …
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Most interpretations of the Exchange Rate Mechanism crisis of 1992/3 ignore the key role played by structural policy spillovers among European countries, and overlook the effects of coordination (or lack thereof) of monetary and exchange rate policies among the countries making up the periphery...
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The promising prospect of a ‘New Economy’ in the US attracted substantial equity inflows in the late 1990s, helping to finance the country’s burgeoning current account deficit. After peaking in 2000, however, US stocks fell by some 8 trillion dollars in value. To assess the welfare effects...
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shocks is proportional to trade. We find that there is a strong asymmetry in that shocks to the United States propagate …
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Recent global imbalances and large gross external financial movements have raised interest in modeling the relationship between international financial market structure and capital flows. This paper constructs a model in which the composition of national portfolios is an essential element in...
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