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Economic Policy Uncertainty : Persistence and Cross-Country Linkages
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...
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Diasporas and Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence and Policy
Bahar, Dany - 2020
The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital"
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841140
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International Value-Added Linkages in Development Accounting
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2018
We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped by bilateral trade determinants (which underpin the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908693
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Political Risk and Real Exchange Rate : What Can We Learn from Recent Developments in Panel Data Econometrics for Emerging and Developing Countries?
Bahmani‐Oskooee, Mohsen - 2019
. (2017) our main findings are the following: i) countries experiencing a high degree of corruption, a high risk to investment … evidence for a threshold effect on the relationship between investment profile-RER, corruption-RER and political instability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892145
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Stigma or Cushion? IMF Programs and Sovereign Creditworthiness
Gehring, Kai - 2018
IMF programs are often considered to carry a “stigma” that triggers adverse market reactions. We show that such a negative IMF effect disappears when accounting for endogenous selection into programs. To proxy for a country's access to financial markets, we use credit ratings and investor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920590
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On the Preferred Creditor Status of Multilateral Development Banks
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023
The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347019
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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009
investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266005
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The irreversibility premium
Chirinko, Robert S.; Schaller, Huntley - 2008
When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be "reluctant to invest." This reluctance creates a … wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264335
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Incomplete property rights and overinvestment
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2009
encroacher's valuation of the asset is increasing in the asset owner's investment. Due to incomplete property rights, the … encroacher and asset owner engage in a contest over the control of the asset after investment has taken place. A standard result … is that the asset owner will underinvest in the asset relative to the first-best level of investment when property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265975
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A growth oriented dual income tax
Keuschnigg, Christian; Dietz, Martin D. - 2005
demonstrates the neutrality properties of the reform with respect to investment, firm financial decisions and organizational choice …. Tax rates are chosen to prevent income shifting from labor to capital income. The reform decisively strengthens investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271071