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In this paper I propose a time-consistent method of discounting hyperbolically that contains the discount rate implied by Gamma discounting as a special case. I apply the discounting method to three canonical environmental problems: (i) optimal renewable resource use, (ii) the tragedy of the...
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This paper examines the fiscal and monetary policy options available to China as a sovereign currency-issuing nation … operating in a dollar standard world. We first summarize a number of issues facing China, including the possibility of slower … policy space open to China. …
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Corruption among central banks induces distorted policies by, first, increasing the inflation bias and, second … bankers with similar preferences, corruption might be tolerated as an instrument of bringing factual policies more in line …
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This paper aims to shed additional light on the existence of opportunistic and partisan political-business cycles in the Brazilian economy over the 1996-2016 period. To that end, it relies on two different approaches: (I) an Oaxaca model in the spirit of Blinder and Watson (2016); and (II) a...
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