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Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets : Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
This paper examines the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on net foreign assets in a panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price booms lead to a significant increase in net foreign...
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A Rise By Any Other Name? Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source
Hanousek, Jan - 2008
Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773476
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
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Corruption, Seigniorage and Growth : Theory and Evidence
Blackburn, Keith; Neanidis, Kyriakos C.; Haque, M. Emranul - 2021
of the government's budget constraint, we find strong evidence to support these predictions under different estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316495
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation
Graham, Liam - 2013
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...
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The Impact of Monetary Strategies on Inflation Persistence
Kočenda, Evžen - 2017
We analyze the impact of price stability-oriented monetary strategies (inflation targeting — IT — and constraining exchange rate arrangements) on inflation persistence using a time-varying coefficients framework in a panel of 68 countries (1993–2013). We show that explicit IT has a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962672
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Multiple Objectives and Central Bank Tradeoffs Under Flexible Inflation Targeting
Walsh, Carl E. - 2014
, even when, in theory, the central bank should care about multiple goals. I offer some ideas about why this might be the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040478
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Supply, Demand and Monetary Policy Shocks in a Multi-Country New Keynesian Model
Dees, Stephane - 2013
-specific foreign output variable to capture direct inter-country linkages. In accord with the theory all variables are measured as … restrictions implied by the NK theory. The multi-country DSGE NK model is then solved to provide estimates of identified supply …. We discuss estimation of impulse response functions and variance decompositions in such large systems, and present …
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Natural Resource Endowment : A Mixed Blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2011
that arise along the way. Special attention is given to Norway, the world's third largest oil exporter, and the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129862
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On the Underestimation of the Precautionary Effect in Discounting
Gollier, Christian - 2011
Using the extended Ramsey rule, the socially efficient rate is the difference between a wealth effect and a precautionary effect of economic growth. This second effect is increasing in the degree of uncertainty affecting the future. In the literature, it is usually calibrated by estimating the...
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