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Foreign aid and developing countries' creditworthiness

Harms, Philipp; Rauber, Michael - 2004

We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor's measure of country credit risk. Based on a simple model of international borrowing and lending, we develop the hypothesis that current aid reduces the likelihood of future...

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Is the Chinese currency substantially misaligned to warrant further appreciation?

Qin, Duo; He, Xinhua - 2010

estimation is based on a commonly used economic approach, but with a wider and more up-to-date coverage of data and a more … misalignment exists in the trilateral rates between the RMB, US$ and euro. The finding refutes the claim that RMB appreciation is …

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How does private foreign borrowing affect the risk of sovereign default in developing countries?

Celasun, Oya; Harms, Philipp - 2007

We argue that increased foreign borrowing by the private sector reduces the risk that a developing country's government defaults on its foreign debt. We present a simple model in which private foreign borrowing reflects a surge of private entrepreneurship. A larger "entrepreneurial class" raises...

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Emerging market business cycles revisited: learning about the trend

Boz, Emine; Daude, Christian; Durdu, C. Bora - 2011

, our estimation for Mexico and Canada suggests more severe informational frictions in emerging markets than in developed …

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The elusive costs of sovereign defaults

Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo; Panizza, Ugo - 2006

Few would dispute that sovereign defaults entail significant economic costs, including, most notably, important output losses. However, most of the evidence supporting this conventional wisdom, based on annual observations, suffers from serious measurement and identification problems. To address...

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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...

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A Global Macro Model for Emerging Europe

Feldkircher, Martin - 2013

.S. output shock as it does to a corresponding euro area shock. The pivotal role of the U.S.A. in shaping the global business … cycle thus seems to partially offset the region's comparably stronger trade integration with the euro area. Second, an … increase in the euro area's short-term interest rate has a negative effect on output in the long run throughout the region …

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Characteristics of the household sector of the hidden economy in an emerging economy

Sookram, Sandra; Schneider, Friedrich G.; Watson, … - 2006

Using the case study of Trinidad and Tobago we investigate for an emerging economy the socioeconomic, demographic, and attitudinal characteristics that influence the propensity of individuals in the household sector to participate in the hidden economy and their perception of the risk of...

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Equity capital, bankruptcy risk and the liquidity trap

Levintal, Oren - 2011

This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links equity capital to the risk-free interest rate. When...

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The effects of the saving and banking glut on the U.S. economy

Justiniano, Alejandro; Primiceri, Giorgio E.; … - 2013

We use a quantitative equilibrium model with houses, collateralized debt and foreign borrowing to study the impact of global imbalances on the U.S. economy in the 2000s. Our results suggest that the dynamics of foreign capital flows account for between one fourth and one third of the increase in...

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