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Asia's role in the global economic architecture

Kawai, Masahiro; Petri, Peter A. - 2010

governance will also require changes in key global organizations - such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World … with overlapping ownership structures in various functional areas (as is already the case with the World Bank and regional …

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Financial development: A broader perspective

Reid, Richard - 2010

This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking … may be more fruitful for today's emerging world to concentrate more on addressing the needs of savers and borrowers in … each individual system. A major lesson for the emerging world from past financial development is that there are risks …

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Emerging contours of financial regulation: Challenges and dynamics

Mohan, Rakesh - 2011

In 2008 - 09 the world experienced the most severe financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. The global …

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Deficit hysteria redux? Why we should stop worrying about US government deficits

Nersisyan, Yeva; Wray, L. Randall - 2010

This brief by Yeva Nersisyan and Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray argues that deficits do not burden future generations with debt, nor do they crowd out private spending. The authors base their conclusions on the premise that a sovereign nation with its own currency cannot become insolvent, and...

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The great crisis and the American response

Galbraith, James K. - 2010

Senior Scholar James K. Galbraith argues the fundamental illusion of viewing the US economy through the free-market prism of deregulation, privatization, and a benevolent government operating mainly through monetary stabilization - the prevailing view among economists over the past three...

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No country for old men: Aging dictators and economic growth

Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2011

This paper develops a model of the relationship between the age of a dictator and economic growth. In the model a dictator must spread the resources of the economy over his reign but faces mortality and political risk. The model shows that if the time horizon of the dictator decreases, either...

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Does export concentration cause volatility?

Busch, Christian J. - 2011

This paper investigates the causal influence of export concentration on measures of aggregate volatility. Geographically disadvantaged countries often have a concentrated export structure which makes them more vulnerable to external shocks. Identifying causal effects of export concentration on...

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Donor coordination and specialization: Did the Paris declaration make a difference?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Thiele, Rainer - 2011

We assess whether bilateral and multilateral donors of foreign aid specialized and coordinated their activities with other donors as agreed in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We account for donor heterogeneity, varying aid priorities and recipient characteristics in order to isolate changes in...

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Parameter estimation and forecasting for multiplicative lognormal cascades

Leövey, Andrés E.; Lux, Thomas - 2011

We study the well-known multiplicative Lognormal cascade process in which the multiplication of Gaussian and Lognormally distributed random variables yields time series with intermittent bursts of activity. Due to the non-stationarity of this process and the combinatorial nature of such a...

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Gender gaps across countries and skills: Supply, demand and the industry structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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