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We study the impact of technology on the reaction of financial markets to information, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We contrast the 'thin-skinned' view that technological improvements cause markets to react more to new information with the 'thick-skinned' view that they react less....
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This paper assesses the cyclicality and sustainability of fiscal policy in Belize and applies a stochastic simulation model to determine the optimal set of fiscal rules. The empirical analysis shows that fiscal policy in Belize has been significantly procyclical and unsustainable much of the...
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This paper estimates the effects of the Maastricht treaty's fiscal criterion on EU countries' general government … deficits and surpluses. After the rule is adopted, the distribution of government deficits among EU countries displays 20 … significant. Finally, we derive country-specific impacts under a rank invariance assumption and find that all EU countries have …
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