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The International Transmission and Effects of Fiscal Policies

Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1986

In recent years the world economy has been subject to large and unsyncronized changes in fiscal policies, high and … builds on a two-country model of the world economy which is applied to the analysis of the transmission and effects of …

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The International Transmission of Fiscal Expenditures and Budget Deficits in the World Economy

Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1984

This paper analyses the effects of fiscal policies on rates of interest and wealth in the world economy. Uncertainty … exert real effects. It is shown that a current budget deficit(resulting from a tax cut) raises world rates of interest. On … transmission. In the long run, a higher steady-state value of government debt raises the steady-state world rate of interest but …

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Budget Deficits and Rates of Interest in the World Economy

Frenkel, Jacob A. - 1984

This paper deals with the international transmission of the effects of budget deficits on world rates of interest and … spending. The model assumes a two-country world within which capital markets are integrated, individuals behave rationally, and … horizon was finite. This formulation generates asimple pattern of aggregate behavior of the two-country world, and it assures …

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De-globalization : Driven by Global Crises?

Razin, Assaf - 2020

International trade increased rapidly after 1990, fueled by the growth of a complex network of global value chains. Financial globalization gathered force. Trade globalization, however, reversed course since the Global Financial Crisis. The new trend is expected to endure after the Global...

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Equity Prices and Equity Flows : Testing Theory of the Information-Efficiency Tradeoff

Razin, Assaf - 2010

The paper tests three hypotheses concerning foreign equity investment in the presence of liquidity risk. First, the FDI-to-FPI price differential is negatively related to liquidity risk (the "Price Discount Hypothesis"). The idea is that market participants do not know whether the FDI investor...

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Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Flows

Goldstein, Itay - 2010

FDI investors control the management of the firms, whereas FPI investors delegate decisions to managers. Therefore, direct investors are more informed than portfolio investors about the prospects of projects. This information enables them to manage their projects more efficiently. However, if...

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Liquidity, Institutional Quality and the Composition of International Equity Outflows

Goldstein, Itay - 2008

We examine the choice between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment at the level of the source country. Based on a theoretical model, we predict that (1) source countries with higher probability of aggregate liquidity crises export relatively more FPI than FDI, and (2) this...

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Credit Constraints and Stock Price Volatility

Hale, Galina - 2007

This paper addresses how creditor protection affects the volatility of stock market prices. Credit protection reduces the probability of oscillations between binding and non-binding states of the credit constraint; thereby lowering the rate of return variance. We test this prediction of a...

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Institutional Weakness and Stock Price Volatility

Hale, Galina - 2006

We find an empirical regularity that stronger creditor protection reduces the volatility of stock market prices. We analyze two distinct mechanisms that characterize equity price volatility: government guarantees and creditor protection. Using a Tobin q model, we demonstrate that weak creditor...

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Bilateral FDI Flows : Threshold Barriers and Productivity Shocks

Razin, Assaf - 2005

A positive productivity shock in the host country tends typically to increase the volume of the desired FDI flows to the host country, through the standard marginal profitability effect. But, at the same time, such a shock may lower the likelihood of making any new FDI flows by the source...

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