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Aid Volatility and Dutch Disease : Is There a Role for Macroeconomic Policies?

Tressel, Thierry - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE MODEL -- III. PARTIAL AND GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS OF FOREIGN AID AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY -- IV. THE OPTIMAL TIMING OF AID AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY -- V. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MACROECONOMIC POLICIES IN AID-RECEIVING COUNTRIES -- VI. CONCLUSIONS...

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Macroeconomic Volatility : The Policy Lessons from Latin America

Singh, Anoop - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MACROECONOMIC VOLATILITY IN LATIN AMERICA: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- III …

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Household Consumption Volatility and Poverty Risk : Case Studies from South Africa and Tanzania

Bellon, Matthieu - 2020

Economic volatility remains a fact of life in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Household-level shocks create large consumption … that reducing consumption volatility would have on aggregate poverty. We then discuss coverage of consumption insurance …

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Dollar Exchange Rate volatility and Productivity Growth in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Eklou, Kodjovi - 2023

This paper examines the impact of Dollar exchange rate volatility on firm productivity in Emerging Markets economies … volatility reduces firm productivity growth. Exploring channels, its finds that the results are driven by countries with low … impact on firm productivty. Further, exploiting firm level data, the paper shows that dollar exchange rate volatility …

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Policy analysis and forecasting in the world economy : a panel unobserved components approach

Vitek, Francis - 2012

This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. This panel unobserved components model features a monetary transmission mechanism, a fiscal transmission mechanism, and extensive macrofinancial linkages, both within...

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Public investment, growth, and debt sustainability : putting together the pieces

Buffie, Edward E.; Berg, Andrew; Pattillo, Catherine A.; … - 2012

We develop a model to study the macroeconomic effects of public investment surges in low-income countries, making explicit: (i) the investment-growth linkages; (ii) public external and domestic debt accumulation; (iii) the fiscal policy reactions necessary to ensure debt-sustainability; and (iv)...

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Financial integration and rebalancing in Asia

Pongsaparn, Runchana; Unteroberdoerster, Olaf - 2011

The paper shows that Asia's degree of financial integration, both with the world and within the region remains low by various measures. The paper also provides empirical evidence that greater financial integration can support economic rebalancing in statistically meaningful ways. The implication...

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How Effective is Fiscal Policy Response in Systemic Banking Crises?

Gupta, Sanjeev - 2009

This paper studies the effects of fiscal policy response in 118 episodes of systemic banking crisis in advanced and emerging market countries during 1980-2008. It finds that timely countercyclical fiscal measures contribute to shortening the length of crisis episodes by stimulating aggregate...

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Country Experiences with the Introduction and Implementation of Inflation Targeting

Ötker, Inci - 2009

This is the tenth chapter of a forthcoming monograph entitled, ""On Implementing Full- Fledged Inflation … introduction and implementation of inflation targeting regimes. It discusses their motivation for introducing IT; how they fared in …

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The Real Effects of Financial Sector Risk

Maechler, Andrea M. - 2009

This paper estimates the magnitude of key effects on the real economy from financial sector stress. We focus on the short-run feedback effect from market-based indicators of financial sector risk to the real economy through the credit channel, and estimate this effect on an economy-wide (macro)...

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