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Fiscal Limits in Advanced Economies
Leeper, Eric M. - 2011
Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
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Transition to FDI Openness : Reconciling Theory and Evidence
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2011
conclusive evidence that they are positive, as theory predicts. This paper shows that the lack of empirical evidence is … consistent with theory if countries are in transition to FDI openness. Anticipated welfare gains lead to temporary declines in … reconciliation of theory and evidence is accomplished with a multicountry dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized with data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130264
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Inflation Targeting
Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2011
-market economies. The chapter discusses the history, macroeconomic effects, theory, practice, and future of inflation targeting …
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Unilateral Tariff Liberalisation
Baldwin, Richard - 2010
strives to partly redress this lacuna on the theory side by introducing three novel political economy mechanisms with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135235
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The Economics of Cultural Transmission and Socialization
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
Cultural transmission arguably plays an important role in the determination of many fundamental preference traits (e.g., discounting, risk aversion and altruism) and most cultural traits, social norms, and ideological tenets ( e.g., attitudes towards family and fertility practices, and attitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136354
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Recent Findings on Trade and Inequality
Harrison, Ann E. - 2010
The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low- income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137608
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Firm Entry, Trade, and Welfare in Zipf's World
di Giovanni, Julian - 2010
Firm size follows Zipf's Law, a very fat-tailed distribution that implies a few large firms account for a disproportionate share of overall economic activity. This distribution of firm size is crucial for evaluating the welfare impact of economic policies such as barriers to entry or trade...
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Learning About Intervention Target Zones
Klein, Michael W. - 2010
This paper provides a framework for evaluating how market participants' beliefs about foreign exchange target zones change as they learn about central bank intervention policy. In order to examine this behavior, we first generalize the standard target zone model to allow for intra-marginal...
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Networks Versus Markets in International Trade
Rauch, James E. - 2012
I propose a network/search view of international trade in differentiated products. I present evidence that supports the view that proximity and common language/colonial ties are more important for differentiated products than for products traded on organized exchanges in matching international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113599
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Welfare Costs of Long-Run Temperature Shifts
Bansal, Ravi - 2011
This article makes a contribution towards understanding the impact of temperature fluctuations on the economy and financial markets. We present a long-run risks model with temperature related natural disasters. The model simultaneously matches observed temperature and consumption growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118836