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Both global imbalances and financial market (de-)regulation feature prominently among the potential causes of the global financial crisis, but they have been largely discussed separately. In this paper, we take a different angle and investigate the relationship between financial market...
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We analyze the implications of labor market reforms for an open economy's human capital investment and future …
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incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …
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utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake - this is …
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privatization effects on savings in Eastern Europe, with limited evidence of positive savings effects in Latin America. These …
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In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...
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risk of workers, which mitigates their precautionary savings motive. Using a quantitative model analysis, we show that this …
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