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Tiny changes in the American monetary policy can have dramatic effects on the rest of the world because of dollar's double role of national and international currency. This is the Triffin dilemma. The paper shows how it works through three examples: price of commodities, dollarization, and the...
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and inflation. …
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A large body of empirical work has found that exchange rate movements have only modest effects on inflation. However …
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A large body of empirical work has found that exchange rate movements have only modest effects on inflation. However …
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American fiscal policy has been procyclical: Washington wasted the expansion period 2001-2007 by running budget deficits, but by 2011 had come to feel constrained by inherited debt to withdraw fiscal stimulus. Chile has achieved countercyclical fiscal policy – saving in booms and easing in...
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Using a narrative account of quarterly discretionary changes in tax liabilities from 1974Q4 to 2018Q2 in a VAR setting, we study whether legislative tax changes affect the trade balance in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. As legislative tax changes we consider (i) all changes,...
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indicate substantial improvements in inflation and unemployment. Amongst the founding states, Ireland has idiosyncratically …
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to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous, our … model is well suited to studying the impact of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using Canada … of removing the Canada-US border on wages, productivity, mark-ups, the share of exporters, the mass of varieties produced …
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The authors provide empirical evidence on the dynamic effects of tax liability changes in the United States. We distinguish between surprise and anticipated tax changes using a timing convention. We document that pre-announced but not yet implemented tax cuts give rise to contractions in output,...
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