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Financial Integration, Globalization, and Real Activity
De Nicolo, Gianni - 2013
distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; both advances in financial integration and globalization are associated … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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International Credit Flows and Pecuniary Externalities
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2015
This paper develops a dynamic two-country neoclassical stochastic growth model with incomplete markets. Short-term credit flows can be excessive and reverse suddenly. The equilibrium outcome is constrained inefficient due to pecuniary externalities. First, an undercapitalized country borrows too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028913
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Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation
Choi, Jay Pil - 2010
programs and the benefits of international antitrust cooperation between agencies. When international antitrust prosecution is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144908
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Globalization and the (Mis)Governance of Nations
Blouin, Arthur - 2013
We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, ‘disciplines' governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … ‘golden straitjacket'. However, globalization may also ‘overdiscipline' governments - resulting in a perverse impact on …
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Taxing Multinationals in the Presence of Internal Capital Markets
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2013
There is ample evidence that internal capital markets incur efficiency costs for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This paper analyzes whether tax avoidance behavior interacts with the costs of running an internal capital market and how policies of competing governments respond to it. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077455
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Did Globalization Influence Credit Market Deregulation?
Eppinger, Peter - 2015
We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021420
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Globalisation and the Mix of Wage and Profit Taxes
Haufler, Andreas - 2006
This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, our model predicts that countries reduce their corporate tax rate, relative to the wage tax, either when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780459
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Pulling Up the Tarnished Anchor : The End of Silver As a Global Unit of Account
Fernholz, Ricardo T. - 2017
We use the demise of silver-based standards in the 19th century to explore price dynamics when a commodity-based money ceases to function as a global unit of account. We develop a general equilibrium model of the global economy with gold and silver money. Calibration of the model shows that...
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The International Monetary Fund : 70 Years of Reinvention
Reinhart, Carmen - 2016
A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … an international lender of last resort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000216
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International Portfolio Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility for Emerging Markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of equity and bond portfolio inflows on exchange rate volatility, using monthly bilateral data for the US vis-a-vis eight Asian developing and emerging countries (India, Indonesia, South Korea, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, and Taiwan) over...
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