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International integration, risk and the welfare state
Andersen, Torben M. - 2002
How does international integration affect the welfare state? Does it call for a leaner or an expanded welfare state? International integration may affect the distortions caused by welfare state activities but also the risks motivating social insurance mechanisms. This paper addresses these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406889
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Financial globalization and economic policies
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - 2009
process of financial globalization. Our central findings indicate that policies promoting financial sector development …, institutional quality and trade openness appear to help developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly, sound … unavoidable tensions inherent in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with financial globalization. In light of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003816538
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Foreign capital and economic growth
Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor);  … - 2007
to overvaluation caused by rapid capital inflows. -- North-South capital flows ; financial globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591497
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The great recession of 2008 - 2009 : causes, consequences and policy responses
Verick, Sher Singh; Islam, Iyanatul - 2010
Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962631
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Oil price shocks, monetary policy and current account imbalances within a currency union
Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2017
trade result in an asymmetric reaction to an otherwise symmetric shock. In this context, we show that oil price shocks can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785688
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Children of crisis : the effects of economic shocks on newborns
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Turan, Belgi - 2020
In this paper, we explore the deep economic crisis experienced by the Turkish economy in 2001 and 2008 as quasi-experiments to causally identify the association between economically challenging conditions in-utero and child's birth weight. First, we utilize the temporal and spatial variations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158851
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Distributional effects of monetary policy in emerging market economies
Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
We develop a two-sector, heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete financial markets to study the distributional effects and aggregate welfare implications of alternative monetary policy rules in emerging market economies. Relative to inflation targeting, exchange rate management benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309046
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Distributional effects of macroeconomic policy choices in emerging market economies
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2013
Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222156
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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 perspective used for the first time in this context. Focusing on Emerging Market Economies (EME), our noteworthy findings postulate that (a) both home and foreign EPU shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239005
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Economic crises, maternal and infant mortality, low birth weight and enrollment rates : evidence from Argentina's downturns
Cruces, Guillermo; Gluzmann, Pablo; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2011
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the inter-temporal and the cross-provincial co-variation between changes in regional GDP and outcomes by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517866