 | Reversing the Financial Accelerator : Credit Conditions and Macro-Financial Linkages Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Reginald Darius. Release Date:February, 2011 This paper examines the role of credit markets in the transmission of U.S. macro-financial shocks through the prism of a financial conditions index (FCI) based on a vector autoregression (VAR) more...
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 | The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle : A Firm-level Cross-country Perspective Author/Editor: Hui Tong, Shang-Jin Wei, Tamim Bayoumi. Release Date:December, 2010 China’s high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country’s large current account surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination more...
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 | Today versus Tomorrow - The Sensitivity of the Non-Oil Current Account Balance to Permanent and Current Income Author/Editor: Alun H. Thomas, Tamim Bayoumi. Release Date:November, 2009 This paper applies the Permanent Income Model to the non-oil current accounts of the major oil exporters to assess the extent to which national consumption decisions in these countries are made on more...
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 | On Impatience and Policy Effectiveness Author/Editor: Silvia Sgherri, Tamim Bayoumi. Release Date:January, 2009 An increasing body of evidence suggests that the behavior of the economy has changed in many fundamental ways over the last decades. In particular, greater financial deregulation, larger wealth more...
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 | Credit Matters : Empirical Evidence on U.S. Macro-Financial Linkages Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Ola Melander. Release Date:July, 2008 This paper develops a framework for analyzing macro-financial linkages in the United States. We estimate the effects of a negative shock to banks' capital/assetratio on lending standards, which in more...
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 | Spillovers Across NAFTA Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Andrew Swiston. Release Date:January, 2008 This paper examines linkages across North America by estimating the size of spillovers from the major regions of the world-the United States, euro area, Japan, and the rest of the world-to Canada and more...
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 | Government for the People : On the Determinants of the Size of U.S. Government Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Fernando M Gonçalves. Release Date:December, 2007 Trends in the size of U.S. government are examined. In the postwar period, general government primary spending rose by ¼ percent of GDP a year through 1975, stabilizing thereafter. With higher more...
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 | Northern Star : Canada's Path to Economic Prosperity Author/Editor: Vladimir Klyuev, Martin Mühleisen, Tamim Bayoumi. Release Date:October, 2007 Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account surpluses -- it's a record to be envied. These outcomes in Canada owe much to sound more...
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 | Globalization, Gluts, Innovation or Irrationality : What Explains the Easy Financing of the U.S. Current Account Deficit? Author/Editor: Ravi Balakrishnan, Volodymyr Tulin, Tamim Bayoumi. Release Date:July, 2007 This paper examines the roles of U.S. financial innovation, financial globalization, and the savings glut hypothesis in explaining the rise in U.S. external debt, first in a portfolio balance model, more...
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 | Foreign Entanglements : Estimating the Source and Size of Spillovers Across Industrial Countries Author/Editor: Tamim Bayoumi, Andrew Swiston. Release Date:July, 2007 VARs of real growth since 1970 are used to estimate spillovers between the U.S., euro area, Japan, and an aggregate of small industrial countries, which proxies for global shocks. U.S. and global more...
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