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scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing investment and growth. Yet, the data and several case studies suggest that the … saving and investment rates tends to be a time consuming process. This also suggests that greater political instability and … polarization would induce consumers to be more cautious in increasing their saving and investment rates following a reform. Hence …
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This paper studies investment in Latin America and explores the relationships of investment with growth, exchange rates … depreciating real exchange rate while the real price of capital slowly recovers. The paper explores the determinants of investment … decline in private investment shares in Latin America during the 1980s seems to result from the deterioration in the terms of …
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Since 1950, the economies of East Asia grew rapidly but received little inter-national capital, while Latin America received considerable international capitaleven as their economies stagnated. The literature typically explains the failureof capital to flow to high growth regions as resulting...
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We study the effects of monetary-policy-induced changes in Tobin's q on corporate investment and capital structure. We … evidence, and quantify the relevance for monetary transmission to aggregate investment …
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This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...
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, scope, and investment decisions, and we outline their connection to recent macroeconomic and financial trends in the US …
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We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment … model, we estimate responses, identify parameters, and conduct counterfactuals. Domestic investment of firms with the mean ….S. multinationals rises substantially. These incentives also boost domestic investment, indicating complementarity between domestic and …
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While substantial empirical research has evaluated the question of whether capital account openness promotes economic growth, this paper finds empirical evidence for cases where the opposite is true--that a policy of capital controls can promote economic growth, when combined with a policy of...
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We study capital controls on outflows (CCOs) in situations of macroeconomic and financial distress. We present novel empirical evidence indicating that CCO implementation is associated with crises and declines in GDP growth. We then develop a theoretical framework that is consistent with such...
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There is substantial evidence that cost-sharing in medical care constrains total health spending. However, there is relatively little (and unclear) evidence on its health effects, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This paper re-evaluates the link between outpatient cost-sharing...
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