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Toward New Horizons : Arab Economic Transformation amid Political Transition
Author/Editor: Harald Finger, Daniela Gressani. Release Date: April, 2014 Price: $20.00The changing political landscape in the Arab world has created opportunities for economic transformation by tackling long-standing economic issues. Nevertheless, three years after the onset of more... |
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Africa's Rising Exposure to China: How Large Are Spillovers Through Trade?
Author/Editor: Paulo Drummond, Estelle X Liu. Release Date: December, 2013 Price: $18.00The rapid growth in China’s domestic investment in recent decades has generated a large appetite for global goods, including from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper estimates the impact of more... |
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China's Economy in Transition : From External to Internal Rebalancing
Author/Editor: Anoop Singh, Malhar S Nabar, Papa M N'Diaye. Release Date: November, 2013 Price: $30.00China's current account surplus has declined to around one-quarter the peak reached before the global financial crisis. While this is a major reduction in China's external imbalance, it has not been more... |
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Growth Following Investment and Consumption-Driven Current Account Crises
Author/Editor: Alexander Klemm. Release Date: October, 2013 Price: $18.00Current account deficits imply increasing liabilities to the rest of the world. External sustainability then depends on whether these can be met in the future without defaulting, i.e., normally more... |
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China's Path to Consumer-Based Growth: Reorienting Investment and Enhancing Efficiency
Author/Editor: Il Houng Lee, Murtaza H Syed, Liu Xueyan. Release Date: March, 2013 Price: $18.00This paper proposes a possible framework for identifying excessive investment. Based on this method, it finds evidence that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in more... |
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Infrastructure and Income Distribution in ASEAN-5: What are the Links?
Author/Editor: Dulani Seneviratne, Yan Sun. Release Date: February, 2013 Price: $18.00Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact more... |
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Is China Over-Investing and Does it Matter?
Author/Editor: Il Houng Lee, Murtaza H Syed, Liu Xueyan. Release Date: November, 2012 Price: $18.00Now close to 50 percent of GDP, this paper assesses the appropriateness of China’s current investment levels. It finds that China’s capital-to-output ratio is within the range of other emerging more... |
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Investment-Led Growth in China: Global Spillovers
Author/Editor: Ashvin Ahuja, Malhar Nabar. Release Date: November, 2012 Price: $18.00Over the past decade, China’s growth model has become more reliant on investment and its footprint in global imports has widened substantially. Several economies within China’s supply chain are more... |
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The Spillover Effects of a Downturn in China's Real Estate Investment
Author/Editor: Ashvin Ahuja, Alla Myrvoda. Release Date: November, 2012 Price: $18.00Real estate investment accounts for a quarter of total fixed asset investment (FAI) in China. The real estate sector’s extensive industrial and financial linkages make it a special type of economic more... |
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Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Role of Labor Market Frictions
Author/Editor: Emine Boz, Ceyhun Bora Durdu, Nan Li. Release Date: October, 2012 Price: $18.00Emerging economies are characterized by higher consumption and real wage variability relative to output and a strongly countercyclical current account. A real business cycle model of a small open more... |
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Dissecting Saving Dynamics : Measuring Wealth, Precautionary, and Credit Effects
Author/Editor: Christopher Carroll, Martin Sommer, Jiri Slacalek. Release Date: September, 2012 Price: $18.00We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate’s long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) more... |
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Brazil's Capital Market : Current Status and Issues for Further Development
Author/Editor: Joonkyu Park. Release Date: September, 2012 Price: $18.00Capital market development in Brazil is a key policy issue going forward to foster savings, investment and absorptive capacity in a context of prospects for sizable capital flows in the medium term. more... |
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Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S.
Author/Editor: Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Lorenz Kueng, John Silvia. Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically more... |
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The Chicago Plan Revisited
Author/Editor: Jaromir Benes, Michael Kumhof. Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary more... |
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Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation
Author/Editor: Kurt Annen, Luc Moers. Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00This paper shows that donors that maximize relative aid impact spread their budgets across many recipient countries in a unique Nash equilibrium, explaining aid fragmentation. This equilibrium may be more... |
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The Cyclicality of Sales, Regular and Effective Prices: Business Cycle and Policy Implications
Author/Editor: Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Gee Hee Hong. Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00We study the cyclical properties of sales, regular price changes and average prices paid by consumers (effective prices) in a dataset containing prices and quantities sold for numerous retailers more... |
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Exchange Rate Fluctuations and International Portfolio Rebalancing in Thailand
Author/Editor: Jacob Gyntelberg, Mico Loretan, Subhanij Tientip. Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00We present empirical evidence that the Thai baht’s value is driven in part by investors’ cross-border equity portfolio rebalancing decisions. Our results are based on comprehensive more... |
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Global Housing Cycles
Author/Editor: Deniz Igan, Prakash Loungani. Release Date: August, 2012 Price: $18.00Housing cycles and their impact on the financial system and the macroeconomy have become the center of attention following the global financial crisis. This paper documents the characteristics of more... |
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People's Republic of China: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
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Great Recession and Fiscal Squeeze at U.S. Subnational Government Level
Author/Editor: Jiri Jonas. Release Date: July, 2012 Price: $18.00The paper discusses the fiscal impact of the Great Recession of 2007-08 on state and local governments in the United States. It documents the sharp decline in tax revenue and discusses how states more... |
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