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A Tale of Politically-Failing Single-Currency Area

Razin, Assaf - 2012

The global financial crisis which erupted in the United States instantaneously swept across Europe. Like the United States, the European Monetary Union (EMU) was ripe for a crash. It had its own real estate bubble, specifically in Ireland and Spain, indulged in excessive deficit spending,...

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Do Debt Flows Crowd Out Equity Flows Or the Other Way Round?

Razin, Assaf - 2000

In the presence of asymmetric information, the stage at which financing decisions are made about investment projects in a small open economy is crucial for the composition of international capital inflows as well as for the efficiency of channeling savings into investment. This paper compares...

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Excessive FDI Flows Under Asymmetric Information

Razin, Assaf - 1999

In Razin, Sadka and Yuen (1998, 1999a), we explored the policy implications of the home-bias in international portfolio investment as a result of asymmetric information problems in which domestic savers, being 'close' to the domestic market, have an informational advantage over foreign portfolio...

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The Fallacy of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Buiter, Willem H. - 1999

or unsound argument'. The 'fiscal theory of the price level', recently re-developed by Woodford, Cochrane, Sims and … proponents of the fiscal theory of the price level do not accept the fundamental proposition that the government's intertemporal …. Policy conclusions could be drawn from the fiscal theory of the price level that would be harmful if they influenced the …

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The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

Cameron, Stephen V. - 1999

This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a...

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Liquidity Traps : How to Avoid Them and How to Escape Them

Buiter, Willem H. - 1999

The paper considers ways of avoiding a liquidity trap and ways of getting out of one. Unless lower short nominal interest rates are associated with significantly lower interest volatility, a lower average rate of inflation, which will be associated with lower expected nominal interest rates,...

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Accounting for Heterogeneity, Diversity, and General Equilibriumin Evaluating Social Programs

Heckman, James J. - 1999

This paper considers the problem of policy evaluation in a modern society with heterogeneous agents and diverse groups with conflicting interests. Several different approaches to the policy evaluation problem are compared including the approach adopted in modern welfare economics, the classical...

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Unskilled Migration : A Burden or a Boon for the Welfare State

Razin, Assaf - 1999

In a static setup, migration of unskilled labor may be resisted by the entire native-born population because, being relatively low earners, migrants are net beneficiaries of the fiscal system. However, the paper shows that with a pay-as-you-go pension, an important pillar of the welfare state,...

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Fiscal Prerequisites for a Viable Managed Exchange Rate Regime : A Non-technical Eclectic Introduction

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

borrowing. There is not yet any "deep structural" theory justifying the (exogenous) lower bounds on the stock of foreign … exchange reserves characteristic of the collapsing exchange rate literature. Absent such a theory of "international liquidity …

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Death, Population Growth, Productivity Growth and Debt Neutrality

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

Debt neutrality is said to occur if, given a program for public spending on current goods and services over time, the real equilibrium of the economy (private consumption, investment, relative prices, etc.) is independent of the pattern of government borrowing and lump-sum taxation over time....

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