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mitigation policy. We extend such a model to include optimal policies for mitigation, adaptation and infrastructure investment … accomplishes the objective of keeping the CO2 levels within bound is characterized by a significant proportion of investment in … immediately, but during the initial period, they account for a smaller proportion of government's public investment …
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The present formulation of the golden rule in the United Kingdom allows fiscal performance to be tested explicitly on an ex-post basis. However, it requires precise dating of the economic cycle, which can lead to significant controversy. Also, the need to aim for current balance or better ""over...
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Recent research in financial economics has shown that rare large disasters have the potential to disrupt financial sectors via the destruction of capital stocks and jumps in risk premia. These disruptions often entail negative feedback e?ects on the macroecon-omy. Research on disaster risks has...
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This paper analyzes the strategic role of investment from a debtor country’s perspective. The framework is one in which … this framework, the paper shows that productive investment may increase or decrease the bargaining power of the debtor …
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This paper develops a model where large financial intermediaries subject to systemic runs internalize the effect of their leverage on aggregate risk, returns and asset prices. Near the steady-state, they restrict leverage to avoid the risk of a run which gives rise to an accelerator effect. For...
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This paper explicitly takes into account the dynamic oligopolistic rivalry among source producers to evaluate the degree of exchange rate pass-through. Using recent time-series techniques for the case of imported automobiles in Switzerland, the results show that prices are strategic complements...
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Tax laws and administrations often treat different size firms differently. There is, however, little research on the consequences. As modeled here, oligopolists with different efficiencies determine the size distribution of firms. A government that maximizes a weighted sum of consumer surplus,...
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presents a unified conceptual framework for identifying sources of mismeasurement of foreign investment income in current … account imbalances and that they are particularly relevant in countries with large external investment positions. We also …
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This paper estimates the impact of the tariff liberalization in four largest CARICOM countries (Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago) on their trade flows. I trace changes in the product-line imports from CARICOM and non-CARICOM countries against time and commodity-level variation...
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This paper formally identifies an important role of banks: Banks competitively internalize production externalities and … facilitate economic growth. I formulate a canonical growth model with externalities as a game among consumers, firms, and banks …. Banks compete for deposits to seek monopoly profits, including externalities. Using loan contracts that specify price and …
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