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We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI … global crisis. Our study reveals a complex and mixed picture. The relationship between growth and lagged capital flows … depends on the type of flows, economic structure, and global growth patterns. We find a large and robust relationship between …
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This paper evaluates the sustainability of large current account imbalances in the era when the Chinese GDP growth rate … to the relative size of the countries' GDP. We conclude that the continuation of the fast growth rate of China, while … last resort," the Chinese growth path would be challenged by its own success. …
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. Crises also decreased growth rates of income per capita significantly below trend for at least two years leading to important …
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We present a new empirical decomposition of the effects of financial liberalization on economic growth and on the … incidence of crises. Our empirical estimates show that the direct effect of financial liberalization on growth by far outweighs … growth whose predictions are consistent with our empirical findings. …
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Why doesn't capital flow into fast-growing countries? In this paper, we provide a quantitative framework incorporating heterogeneous producers and underdeveloped domestic financial markets to study the joint dynamics of total factor productivity (TFP) and capital flows. When an unexpected...
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systematic relation between fast growth and preference for delayed consumption. The third part applies the methodology to the …
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In 2007, countries in the euro periphery were enjoying stable growth, low deficits, and low spreads. Then the financial … growth and welfare, and may lead to self-fulfilling crises. It also shows how crowding-out effects can be transmitted to …
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This paper develops a dynamic two-country neoclassical stochastic growth model with incomplete markets. Short …
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This paper studies how the effect of trade openness on economic growth depends on complementary reforms that help a … panel evidence on how the growth effect of openness depends on a variety of structural characteristics. For this purpose, we … use a non-linear growth regression specification that interacts a proxy of trade openness with proxies of educational …
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This paper reviews recent theory and evidence on trade and industrial policy reform in developing countries. First, the theoretical and empirical basis of the rationales for policy reform are discussed. Next, two sources of heterodoxy are identified and evaluated: (a) the East Asian experience...
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