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Capital account policies, IMF programs and growth in developing regions
Bicaba, Zorobabel; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli - 2015
This paper develops an adaptive learning model under uncertainty that examines evolution of capital account polices over time and across developing regions. In the framework, countries' past experiences and IMF programs influence policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469677
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On the exchange rate and economic policy uncertainty nexus: a panel VAR approach for emerging markets
Abid, Abir; Rault, Christophe - 2020
We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239005
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Volatility spillover between oil prices and main exchange rates : evidence from a DCC-GARCH-connectedness approach
Ben Salem, Leila; Zayati, Montassar; Nouira, Ridha; … - 2024
contagion spillover volatility by focusing on a sample of major oil-exporting and oil-importing countries using daily data from …; during COVID-19; and during the Russian-Ukrainian war. Our results confirm the persistence of volatility for the series … volatility transmission between oil prices and exchange-rate markets. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494631
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Exchange rate volatility and employment growth : empirical evidence from the CEE economies
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Setzer, Ralph (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001937672
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Exchange rate volatility effects on the German labour market : a survey of recent results and extensions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Mueller, Claudia - 1999
In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294706
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Foundations of utilitarianism under risk and variable population
Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2021
Utilitarianism is the most prominent family of social welfare functions. We present three new axiomatic characterizations of utilitarian (that is, additively separable) social welfare functions in a setting where there is risk over both population size and the welfares of individuals. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583668
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A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen's measures of inequality and social welfare
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2021
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648303
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Prioritarianism and equality of opportunity
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, … - 2021
worse-off - is consistent with the normative theory of equality of opportunity. We show that there are inherent tensions … aversion. The precise nature of the compromises depends on the specific variant of the theory of equality of opportunity that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431403
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Why variable-population social orderings cannot escape the repugnant conclusion : proofs and implications
Spears, Dean; Budolfson, Mark - 2019
conclusion. Therefore, the repugnant conclusion provides no methodological guidance for theory or policymaking, because it cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121586
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A soul's view of the optimal population problem
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021
A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493350