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This paper evaluates the sustainability of large current account imbalances in the era when the Chinese GDP growth rate … to the relative size of the countries' GDP. We conclude that the continuation of the fast growth rate of China, while … last resort, the Chinese growth path would be challenged by its own success. …
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We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between … contribute to expanding the host country's capital stock. The model suggests that greenfield FDI has a stronger impact on growth … than M&A sales. This hypothesis is supported by our empirical results, which show that greenfield FDI enhances growth …
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This paper evaluates the sustainability of large current account imbalances in the era when the Chinese GDP growth rate … to the relative size of the countries' GDP. We conclude that the continuation of the fast growth rate of China, while … last resort, the Chinese growth path would be challenged by its own success. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285339
This paper challenges the conventional view according to which disinflations in LAC-even from low and moderate peaks-have been carried out at no cost to output. After suggesting a new methodology that allows for long-lived effects and inflation inertia when measuring costs of disinflations,...
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distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the … transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income inequality affects the patterns of growth and international specialization as …
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This paper analyzes the long-run relationship between output collapses-defined defined as GDP falling substantially below trend - and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period 1960-2003 to identify episodes of output collapse and...
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Employing propensity score reweighting and event-based strategies, we provide evidence that sustained real exchange rate (RER) misalignments have significant effects on economic development: positive on GDP per capita and capital stock in the case of undervaluation, and negative on the capital...
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economic growth. This research has relied on a variety of econometric techniques applied to large cross-country data sets …. Although the documented positive effects of both RER competitiveness and stability on growth appear to be robust, it is still …: the financial globalization channel and the tradable-led growth channel. I conclude that since these mechanisms are not …
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During the 2011-2015 period, Turkey's current account deficit as a percentage of GDP was one of the largest among the OECD countries. In this paper, we examine if this deficit can be considered sustainable using the Engel and Rogers (2006) approach. In this framework, the current account of a...
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role to play, if at all, but the interaction between distribution and growth is at the centre of Marxian and post …-Keynesian/Kaleckian approaches when it comes to explaining medium- to long-run trends of economic growth - and stagnation. In this contribution we … will thus provide Marxian and Kaleckian assessments of the distribution and growth regimes under finance …
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