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framework, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth matter not just directly but because …
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This article discusses the importance of accounting for cultural values and beliefs when studying the process of historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described. Because cultural traits evolve based upon relative...
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We identify the timing of currency, banking crises and sudden stops in New Zealand from 1880 to 2008, and consider the extent to which empirical models can explain New Zealand's crisis history. We find that the cross country evidence on the determinants of crises fits New Zealand experience...
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This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of empirical evidence about the impact of financial globalization on …, we do find that financial globalization can be beneficial under the right circumstances. Empirically, good institutions … and quality of governance are crucial in helping developing countries derive the benefits of globalization. Similarly …
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inescapable in the real world of asymmetric information and imperfect contract enforcement. I argue, however, that in confronting …
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This paper provides a framework for analyzing the effects of symmetric and asymmetric changes in information about risk on equilibrium real interest rate spreads across countries. Following the literature on parameter uncertainty, improvements in information are modeled as reductions in...
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globalization, international tax competition, and the fading generosity of the welfare state. Financial globalization triggers a … key mechanism which links financial globalization to redistribution policy, this paper develops a stripped-down model …, where easing the country access to the world capital markets induces political-economy based policy changes that impact …
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Two observations suggest that financial globalization played an important role in the recent financial crisis. First …
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Globalization has made it possible for labor in developing countries to augment labor in the developed world, without … world's effective labor supply, triggered by geo-political events and technological innovations, coupled with the inability …
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behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …
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