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of trade with China became less friendly. Today, GDP in North Korea is reportedly lower than in 1990, notwithstanding a …
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This paper analyzes the causes and implications of recent financial crises. Financial crises in general lead to changes in both theory and practice of economics. The paper takes an historical overview. The global consensus of economic theory during the 20th century is discussed. The paper...
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This paper provides an overview of the evolution of macroeconomic thought from 1936, the year John Maynard Keynes published his general theory of employment, interest and money to the year 2010. It explores the reasons for the extension of the business cycle during the postwar period. The paper...
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Many are currently studying the origins of the financial crisis in an attempt to answer two seemingly simple questions: why did it happen, and can another crisis be prevented? Those two questions have proved incredibly divisive. The majority opinion of The United States Financial Crisis Inquiry...
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Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss of economic dynamics besides German unification: These include leaving labor idle, a declining share of investment in GDP, a weaker innovative activity, an ineffective system for...
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reduction in Chinese imports from the U.S. during the height of the U.S.-China trade war in 2018 and 2019. We infer non … than 90\% of the welfare cost to Chinese consumers of the U.S.-China trade war. The welfare loss to China of a given …
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international trade. Although Peru´s relations with Asia tend to reinforce its overall position as a mineral exporter, the country … has not experienced significant “de-industrialization”. On the contrary, through aggressive pursuit of free trade … agreements (FTA) and new foreign investment, trade with Asia has increased in scope and diversity, with considerable dynamism in …
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of trade to estimate a panel cointegrating relationship between real exchange rates and a set of fundamentals for a …-based real exchange rate and commodity terms of trade. The estimated impact of productivity growth differentials between traded …
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This paper assesses the extent to which crashes in emerging market currencies are predictable using simple logit models based on lagged macroeconomic and financial data. To evaluate our model, we calculate trading strategies in which an investor goes long or short in the currency depending on...
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? Data from South Asia suggest that member states have minor trade linkages and face asymmetrical patterns of shocks. This …
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