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the weight of U.S. liabilities in the rest of the world''s stock of external assets. Finally, it relates the empirical …
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Economic adjustment and reform programs, including those supported by international financial institutions (IFIs), must cope with informational asymmetries and special interest politics. This presents a particularly serious issue when IFIs make structural economic reforms a condition for...
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The Gulf of Guinea''s tremendous potential is creating investment opportunities for the region. Some of its resources, such as oil, minerals, and forests, continue to attract significant investments whereas others, like natural gas, could be exploited to their full potential if necessary...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION: COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE -- II. GROWING INTEREST IN THE REGION -- III. COPING WITH THE OBSTACLES TO THE REGION'S DEVELOPMENT -- IV. A FEW IDEAS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION -- V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- References.
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advantage. Financial globalization then induces more specialization and more trade. The present framework yields explicit closed …
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We present a novel and comprehensive dataset of bilateral gross and net external positions in various financial instruments for the main advanced and emerging economies and regions, designed to improve our understanding of cross-border financial linkages. The data show no strong correspondence...
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We estimate world cycles using a new quarterly dataset of output, credit and asset prices assembled using IMF archives … and covering a large set of advanced and emerging economies since 1950. World cycles, both real and financial, exist and … time. Although this is true for prices (goods and assets), this not true for quantities (output and credit). The world …
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Macrofinancial Model (GFM). This dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the world economy, disaggregated into forty national …
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