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Cheap but flighty : how global imbalances create financial fragility
Perotti, Enrico C.; Ahnert, Toni - 2015
Can a wealth shift to emerging countries explain instability in developed countries? Investors exposed to political risk seek safety in countries with better property right protection. This induces private intermediaries to offer safety via inexpensive demandable debt, and increase lending into...
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Growth effects of fiscal policies : a comparative analysis in a multi-country context
Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999
The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
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Capital markets integration, growth and income distribution : a dynamic analysis
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000976071
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Uncertain technological change under capital mobility
Hek, Paul A. de - 2005
The analysis in this paper shows that unpredictable variations in economic productivity may have a positive or negative effect on the average growth rate of output. This theoretical ambiguity result is not solely determined by the value of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (of...
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Location of investors and capital flight
Botman, Dennis P. J.; Diks, Cees G. H. - 2002
This paper utilizes a very simple model to study the timing and determinants of speculationagainst a fixed exchange rate regime when investors are heterogeneous because of locationaldifferences. Location matters because resident players may incur smaller costs when takinga short-position, are...
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The macroeconomics of the credit crisis : in search of externalities for macro-prudential supervision
Butter, Frank A. G. den - 2010
In the analysis of the credit crisis of 2007-2010 a clear distinction should be made between (i) the initial shock; (ii) the propagation and amplification of the initial shock to the systemic crisis of the financial markets; and (iii) the transmission of the credit crisis to the real economic...
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Innovation and inequality in a small world
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2017
countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world …. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces an extraordinary diversity of country growth performances, including … the overtaking of individual countries and the replacement of the technologically leading country in the course of world …
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Economic growth and the volatility of foreign aid
Chervin, Michal; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2009
Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 countries over the period 1966-2001. We find that...
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2014
country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …
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Space and growth
Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004
This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
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