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China's financial openness, as measured by cross border flows and asset ownership, peaked during its 2000s growth surge …, as did downward pressure on global interest rates and price levels. This was despite China's restriction of financial … shown that, without capital controls, most surge effects on China would have been moderated substantially while the global …
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The paper develops a model of proportionate growth to describe the dynamics of the network of international trade flows. We show that a large number of the empirical regularities characterizing international trade - such as the fraction of zero trade flows across pairs of countries, the positive...
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Economists have long debated whether the real exchange rate (RER) has a significant impact on export performance and output growth. Some claim that export performance depends only on nonprice competition and the RER is irrelevant to long-run growth, whereas others argue that the RER is a key...
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While trade integration is often regarded as a principal determinant of economic growth, the empirical evidence for a causal linkage between trade and growth is ambiguous. This paper argues that the effect of trade in dynamic panel estimations depends crucially on the specification of trade....
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various monetary regimes, the paper shows that the contribution of China in global rebalancing should primarily rely on … structural policies aiming at reducing aggregate savings in China. The role of the exchange-rate regime would be minor under … today. Finally, relying only on a change in China's monetary regime (without structural reforms) could end up in delaying …
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old joke goes, the rest of the world caught a cold. But that dominance is now being challenged by the rise of rapidly … outline the consequences of this evolving world economic order – in particular, how it is decoupling the business cycles of …
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The BPCG model provides an interesting hypothesis regarding economic growth. The main implication is that world demand … consistently .nds an important role for the level of the real exchange rate and investment, independently of world demand growth. …
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This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focuses on...
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