Showing 1 - 10 of 32
even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243418
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000831002
"This paper tests the importance of precautionary and mercantilist motives in accounting for the hoarding of international reserves by developing countries, and provides a model that quantifies the welfare gains from optimal management of international reserves. While the variables associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003303565
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003303790
The club of high-performing emerging markets is fairly concentrated in East Asia. Their TFP growth may not be extraordinary, though their growth rate is unprecedented. Factors argued to promote growth include trade, investment, external financing, and good governance. The importance of external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521461
We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490278
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222995
The purpose of this study is to identify conditions under which renewed international. lending will benefit both the developed and the developing countries. Our analysis will evaluate how the presence of terms of trade adjust-rent and distorted credit markets affect the conditions for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139886
This paper explores links between policy uncertainty and growth. It provides evidence on the correlation between policy uncertainty and per capita real GDP for 46 developing countries over the 1970-85 period. Cross-section regressions on growth suggest that after accounting for standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141088
The global crisis highlights the continued vulnerability of developing countries to shocks from advanced economies. Just a few years after the global crisis, the eurozone sovereign debt crisis has emerged as the single biggest threat to the global outlook. In this paper, we apply the event study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091076