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This paper explores theoretically and empirically the long run relation of the terms of trade (ratio of domestic and … trade towards PPP during a catch-up process, which suggests very long half-life times of terms of trade. Two theoretical … interdependencies between the terms of trade and economic growth are offered: the home market effect and the productivity shock effect …
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(possibly unwarranted) homogeneity and proportionality restrictions are not imposed, and trivariate cointegration (stage …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
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The paper models the interaction between risk taking in the financial sector and central bank policy for the case of pure illiquidity risk. It is shown that, when bad states are highly unlikely, public provision of liquidity may improve the allocation, even though it encourages more risk taking...
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quantity of money and or excess money can be used to forecast inflation. After a preliminary data analysis, money demand …. Using recursive estimates, indicator properties of monetary aggregates for inflation are assessed for the period from 2000 … the one for M2 is strongly influenced by these three observations. While in both cases forecasts for 2010 show inflation …
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Traditionally, aggregate liquidity shocks are modelled as exogenous events. Extending our previous work (Cao & Illing, 2008), this paper analyses the adequate policy response to endogenous systemic liquidity risk. We analyse the feedback between lender of last resort policy and incentives of...
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In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...
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private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that market design has the potential to contribute to the development …
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, measure integrity and other values of these groups, and use this data and data from Kenya to support one of the model …
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We examine whether the Chinese exchange rate is misaligned and how Chinese trade flows respond to the exchange rate and … is on the order of 10 percent. Second, we find that Chinese multilateral trade flows respond to relative prices - as … represented by a trade weighted exchange rate - but the relationship is not always precisely estimated. In addition, the direction …
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