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The Impact of Research and Development Tax Incentives on Colombia's Manufacturing Sector
Mercer-Blackman, Valerie - 2008
-2002 Survey of Manufacturers database in Colombia to analyze this question. We estimate the effect of the R&D tax deduction … instituted in Colombia using Zellner's Seemingly Unrelated Regressions method, and find that the elasticity of demand of R …&D investment in manufacturing is quite high in Colombia compared to other countries, particularly for smalle …
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Are Capital Controls Effective in the 21st Century? The Recent Experience of Colombia
Clements, Benedict J. - 2009
This paper assesses the effects of capital controls imposed in Colombia in 2007 on capital flows and exchange rate … the appreciation of Colombia's currency, or increased the degree of independence of monetary policy. We also find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677725
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Social Security Reforms in Colombia
Clavijo, Sergio - 2009
of public health care in Colombia during 1993-2008. Parametric pension reforms have focused on increasing the retirement … security system in Colombia is roughly 160 percent of GDP for pensions and about 97 percent of GDP for the health system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677742
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Fiscal policy and the real exchange rate
Chatterjee, Santanu; Mursagulov, Azer - 2012
Government spending on infrastructure has recently increased sharply in many emerging-market economies. This paper examines the mechanism through which public infrastructure spending affects the dynamics of the real exchange rate. Using a two-sector dependent open economy model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572527
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Grants, Remittances, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Mongardini, Joannes - 2009
This paper builds on the methodology developed by Chudik and Mongardini (2007) to estimate the relationship between grants and remittances and the equilibrium real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using panel techniques. The results indicate that grants and remittances are...
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Assessing Exchange Rate Competitiveness in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
Pineda, Emilio - 2009
This paper uses three methods to assess movements of real exchange rates in the ECCU over time. First, the purchasing power parity hypothesis is tested and then used to provide a benchmark for equilibrium real exchange rates in the region. Second, a fundamentals-based equilibrium real exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677765
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Current Accounts in a Currency Union
Decressin, Jörg - 2009
A fear about EMU was that in the absence of national currencies, country-specific shocks would result in greater current account divergences between member states. This paper finds that divergences across euro-area countries are smaller and have not risen relative to those across 13 other...
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Cointegrated TFP Processes and International Business Cycles
Tuesta, Vicente - 2009
A puzzle in international macroeconomics is that observed real exchange rates are highly volatile. Standard international real business cycle (IRBC) models cannot reproduce this fact. We show that TFP processes for the U.S. and the ""rest of the world,"" is characterized by a vector error...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677880
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Price Dynamics in the Eastern Caribbean
Duttagupta, Rupa - 2008
The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) countries share a common currency, the EC dollar, which has been pegged to the U.S. dollar at the same rate for more than three decades. This paper examines the influence of the peg on ECCU price stability, and analyzes whether absolute Purchasing...
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Tanzania's Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate
Hobdari, Niko - 2008
Tanzania's real effective exchange rate (REER) has depreciated sharply since end-2000, reversing the appreciation that took place in the second half of the 1990s. Single-country and panel data estimates, and the external sustainability approach, suggest that Tanzania's REER is currently modestly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677457