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The paper emphasizes the role of institutions and incentives in the presence of externalities. An economy with multiple … effective institutions exist for overcoming coordination failure. External financing may weaken incentives for adjustment over … that strengthen incentives to provide effort. Uncertainty regarding future taxes reduces present effort and the …
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External headwinds, together with domestic vulnerabilities, have loomed over the prospects of emerging markets in recent years. We propose an empirical toolbox to quantify the impact of external macro-financial shocks on domestic economies in parsimonious way. Our model is a Bayesian VAR...
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This paper, using a six-region DSGE model of the world economy, assesses the GDP and current account implications of permanent oil supply shocks hitting the world economy at an unspecified future date. For modest-sized shocks and conventional production technologies the effects are modest. But...
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Growing international integration in trade and finance can challenge the measurement of external accounts. This paper presents a unified conceptual framework for identifying sources of mismeasurement of foreign investment income in current account balances. The framework allows to derive a...
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generates significant negative environmental and public health externalities. Recent model simulations show that a well …
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incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality and inequality, and we extend the methodology to include environmental externalities …
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Welfare economics, scope and performance of government, externalities, public goods, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies … addresses externalities, provided the social return is above a threshold. This paper argues that another consideration needs to … be brought into the mix - whether, in spite of the externalities, the private sector has an incentive to undertake the …
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searching process of individual investors and the information externalities of investors in the aggregate. Policy implications …
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This paper examines the possibility of ascertaining the welfare changes that occur when a consumption tax replaces an equal-yield income tax. It finds that those with saving/income ratios greater than the social saving/income ratio under the income tax will surely benefit and those with ratios...
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