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We analyse Ricardian Equivalence in open economy using a panel of 18 developed countries for 1973-1998. We use a dynamic panel estimated via instrumental variables and we discuss why this specification should be preferred to a static model estimated via ordinary least squares. We find a...
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productivity of the economy. Trends in social consumption/GDP, and in fiscal policy, reflected political regime changes in France …
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In the last half of the 1990s, labor productivity growth rose in the U.S. and fell almost everywhere in Europe. We … document changes in both capital deepening and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth in both the information and communication … technology (ICT) and non-ICT sectors. We view MFP growth in the ICT sector as investment-specific productivity (ISP) growth. We …
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Financially closed economies insure themselves against current-account shocks using international reserves. We characterize the optimal management of reserves using an open-economy model of precautionary savings and emphasize several results. First, the welfare-based opportunity cost of reserves...
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In the second half of the 1990s, labor productivity growth rose in the United States and declined in most parts of … Europe. This paper documents changes in capital deepening and multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth in information and … communication technology (ICT) and non-ICT sectors. We consider MFP growth in the ICT sector as investment-specific productivity …
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Recently, a dramatic accumulation in foreign exchange reserves has been widely observed in developing countries. This paper explores the possible long-run impacts of this trend on macroeconomic variables in developing countries. We analyze a simple open economy model where increased foreign...
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