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Military Expenditure, Threats, and Growth
Aizenman, Joshua - 2003
threats, corruption, and other relevant controls. While growth falls with higher levels of military spending, given the values …
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Macroeconomic Adjustment and the History of Crises in Open Economies
Aizenman, Joshua - 2012
In contrast, we find that past crisis experience has a significant impact on savings. When facing considerable political risk, the past does seem to matter - countries with more people who were exposed, over their lifetime, to larger disasters will tend to save more. This association, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460133
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Institutional Efficiency, Monitoring Costs, and the Investment Share of FDI
Aizenman, Joshua - 2002
obstacles associated with corruption and weak institutions. We model these circumstances in a principal-agent framework with … economic corruption as an indicator of the strength of property right enforcement within a given country. We compare corruption … levels for a large cross section of countries in 1989 to subsequent FDI flows from 1990 to 1999. We find that corruption is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469382
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Financial sector ups and downs and the real sector : big hindrance, little help
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
"We examine how financial expansion and contraction cycles affect the broader economy through their impact on 8 real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395532
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Capital Controls and Financial Crises
Aizenman, Joshua - 1999
foreigners, and the conditions inducing an emerging market economy to switch its policies. We consider an economy characterized … may induce the emerging market's capitalists to support opening up the economy to FDI. This attitude switch is more likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471387
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A Two Covid-19 Years Quartile Comparison of Official with Excess Mortality : Voice and Accountability and the Impact of Vaccines
Aizenman, Joshua - 2022
We evaluate the quartile ranking of countries during the Covid-19 pandemic using both official (i.e., confirmed) and excess mortality data. Contrasting countries' rankings using these two data sources reveal sharp and systematic differences. While higher GDP per capita is associated with a worse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938747
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Sovereign debt in the 21st century : looking backward, looking forward
Mitchener, Kris; Trebesch, Christoph - 2021
How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature has responded to the eurozone debt crisis, placing "lessons learned" in historical perspective. The crisis featured: (i) the return of debt problems to advanced economies; (ii) a bank-sovereign "doom-loop"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659067
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The Political Economy of the COVID-19 Fiscal Stimulus Packages of 2020
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
of the politics and political-economy considerations that led to the specific content of each fiscal program will have to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660038
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The Ukraine support tracker : which countries help Ukraine and how?
Antezza, Arianna; Frank, André; Frank, Pascal; Franz, Lukas - 2022 - This is the third version (May 18, 2022) of the paper and database
This paper presents the “Ukraine Support Tracker”, which lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war. This third version covers government commitments between January 24 and May 10, 2022. We now track support by 37...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198980
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Which countries help Ukraine and how? : introducing the Ukraine support tracker
Antezza, Arianna; Frank, André; Frank, Pascal; Franz, Lukas - 2022
This paper introduces the “Ukraine Support Tracker”, which lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022. We measure support from Western governments, namely by G7 and European Union member countries. Due to our focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184140