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We identify structural breaks in economic growth in 140 countries and use these to define ""growth spells:"" periods of high growth preceded by an upbreak and ending either with a downbreak or with the end of the sample. Growth spells tend to be shorter in African and Latin American countries...
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We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio … can be modified to create a more accurate representation of debt sustainability for a country that receives significant … remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of remittances into the traditional debt sustainability analysis alters the …
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In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
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