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How do public and private information affect equilibrium allocations and social welfare in economies with investment …
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We show that the stock market may fail to aggregate information even if it appears to be efficient, and that the resulting decrease in the information content of prices may drastically reduce welfare. We solve a macroeconomic model in which information about fundamentals is dispersed and...
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Managed care health insurers in the US restrict their enrollees' choice of hospitals to specific networks. This paper investigates the causes and welfare effects of the observed hospital networks. A simple profit maximization model explains roughly 63 per cent of the observed contracts between...
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investment. While financial globalization always improves the welfare of a developed country with a good financial system, its … which financial globalization can be a substitute for reforms of domestic financial system. Inefficient financial system and … the country in the form of financial capital outflows but domestic investment takes place via inward foreign direct …
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student flows, business travel, and tourism. Despite its peripheral status in debates over globalization, the movement of …
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Globalization, in the form of financial flows, which is always advantageous on an aggregative level, typically creates … winners and losers, if left exclusively to market forces. The effects of financial globalization on income inequality depends …-exporting case, financial globalization drives up return to savings and drives down wages. In the capital-importing case, financial …
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In this paper we examine how monetary policy should respond to nominal exchange rates in a New Keynesian open economy model that allows for a non-trivial role for sterilised intervention. The paper develops the argument against the backdrop of the evolving policy-making environment of Asian...
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The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
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International financial integration helps to diversify risk but also may increase the trans- mission of crises across countries. We provide a quantitative analysis of this trade-off in a two-country general equilibrium model with endogenous portfolio choice and collateral con- straints....
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illustrates that, statically, globalization (defined as reduced trade barriers) has ambiguous effects on welfare, while …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …
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