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We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world … economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world interest rate and increase private wealth … are consistent with the evolution of the world's balance of payments since the beginning of the Covid pandemic …
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Do external imbalances increase the risk of financial crises? In this paper, we study the experience of 14 developed …
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Recent globalization trends have refocused attention on the historical evolution of international capital mobility over the long run. The issue is examined here using time-series analysis of current-account dynamics for fifteen countries since circa 1850. The inter-war period emerges as an era...
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In broad perspective, there have been essentially two competing views of the global financial crisis, albeit there are some complementarities among them. One view looks across the border: it mainly blames external imbalances, the large-scale mix of unprecedented pattern current account deficits...
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