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The Value of Making Commitments Externally : Evidence from WTO Accessions
Tang, Man-Keung - 2008
This paper studies the value of external commitment to policy reforms in the case of WTO/GATT accessions. The accessions often entail reforms that go beyond narrowly defined trade liberalization, and have to overcome fierce resistance in the acceding countries, as reflected in protracted...
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China's Macroeconomic Development : The Role of Gradualist Reforms
Chen, Kaiji; Zha, Tao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper reviews recent literature on China's macroeconomic development, emphasizing the critical role of the … gradualist approach over the past four decades. Beyond China's structural transformation, we explore various aspects such as high … illustrates how China's gradual policy reforms, amidst highly imperfect financial markets, have effectively helped spur GDP growth …
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Economic Analysis and the Political Economy of Policy Formation
Bruno, Michael - 1989
The first part of the paper analyzes the various components (as well as likely failures) in the complex two-way market chain that links the supply of economic theories with the design, sale and implementation of workable economic policies. Among other aspects of this link two points are...
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Keynes on the Sequencing of Economic Policy : Recovery and Reform in 1933
Edwards, Sebastian - 2018
On December 31 1933, The New York Times published an open letter from John Maynard Keynes to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In it Keynes encouraged FDR to expand public works through government borrowing. He also criticized FDR's exchange rate policy, and argued that there was a need for lower...
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Modern Macroeconomics in Practice : How Theory is Shaping Policy
Kehoe, Patrick - 2006
Theoretical advances in macroeconomics made in the last three decades have had a major influence on macroeconomic policy analysis. Moreover, over the last several decades, the United States and other countries have undertaken a variety of policy changes that are precisely what macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466188
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Economics versus Politics : Pitfalls of Policy Advice
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
The standard approach to policy-making and advice in economics implicitly or explicitly ignores politics and political economy, and maintains that if possible, any market failure should be rapidly removed. This essay explains why this conclusion may be incorrect; because it ignores politics,...
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The Economist as Plumber
Duflo, Esther - 2017
As economists increasingly help governments design new policies and regulations, they take on an added responsibility to engage with the details of policy making and, in doing so, to adopt the mindset of a plumber. Plumbers try to predict as well as possible what may work in the real world,...
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On Current Account Surpluses and the Correction of Global Imbalances
Edwards, Sebastian - 2007
significant exchange rate movements. This analysis also suggests that a reduction in China's (very) large surplus will be needed …
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International Policy Coordination : The Long View
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...
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The Transition Economies After Ten Years
Fischer, Stanley - 2000
While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...
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