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External shocks and banking crises in developing countries : does the exchange rate regime matter?
Mendis, Chandima - 2002
This paper examines some determinants of banking crises in developing economies. Specifically, the effects of terms of trade shocks and capital flows are analyzed. The choice of the nominal exchange rate regime is found to be a crucial factor in the way various shocks are transmitted through the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410637
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Trade shocks and macroeconomic fluctuations in Africa
Kose, M. Ayhan; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 1999
exported primary commodities, imported capital goods and intermediate inputs, and a financial shock, modeled as fluctuations in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781698
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Terms of trade, catch-up, and home market effect : the example of Japan
Urban, Dieter M. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624594
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World price shocks, income, and democratization
Zissimos, Benjamin - 2015
This paper shows how a world price shock can increase the likelihood that democratization must be used to resolve the … price shock can push the country into a situation where the elite face a commitment problem that only democratization can … resolve. Because the world price shock may also reduce average incomes, the model provides a way to understand why the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485531
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Political stability and economic prosperity : are coups bad for growth?
Blum, Johannes; Gründler, Klaus - 2020
We provide evidence that political instability deteriorates economic growth. We establish this result based on panel difference-in-differences strategies and dynamic panel data models using a large sample of 180 countries, a novel geocoded dataset for 2,660 regions, and micro data for about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219694
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Political persistence, connections and economic growth
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2009
Using data on a panel of 56 democratic countries in the period 1975-2004, we find evidence of a negative association between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808628
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Political uncertainty, public expenditure and growth
Darby, Julia; Li, Chol-won; Muscatelli, V. Anton - 2000
We focus on the link between political instability due to uncertain electoral outcomes and economic growth, through the impact on a government's decisions on how to allocate government expenditure between public consumption and investment. Using an endogenous growth model with partisan electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781587
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Growth and volatility of tax revenues in Latin America
Fricke, Hans; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011
Against the background of a notoriously high macroeconomic instability and the need to raise tax revenues to meet the demands of public spending, this paper analyzes the tradeoff between growth and volatility of tax revenues in Latin America. We use a two-step Engle-Granger-type model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009230
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Corruption, seigniorage and growth : theory and evidence
Blackburn, Keith (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance transmission channel. At the theoretical level, we develop a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which financial intermediaries make portfolio decisions on behalf of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748210
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The economic impact of weather and climate
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021
I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I test it on a sample of 160 countries over the period...
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