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Browsing Working Papers by Subject "F32"
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Title:International Financial Integration of South-Mediterranean Economies: A bird's-eye view
Author(s):PEETERS, Marga; SABRI, Nidal R.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Should South-Mediterranean economies continue their financial integration in the world economy, considering their current stance and in view of the experiences of developed economies with the global financial crisis? The ...
Title:Regime Switching Interest Rates and Fluctuations in Emerging Markets
Author(s):GRUSS, Bertrand; MERTENS, KarelDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We estimate regime switching models for emerging market interest rates and embed the obtained nonlinear dynamics in a small open economy model with a financial friction. We show that the presence of an infrequent regime ...
Title:The Saving Glut Explanation of Global Imbalances. The Role of Underinvestment
Author(s):CORNELI, FlaviaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:According to the “Saving Glut hypothesis”, global imbalances are caused by inefficiently high level of precautionary savings in .nancially underdeveloped regions, where agents have limited opportunity to diversify idiosyncratic ...
Title:Genuine Savings and the Voracity Effect
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Many resource-rich countries have negative genuine saving rates, so deplete their exhaustible
natural resource wealth faster than they build up wealth in other assets. This phenomenon is
stronger in more fractionalized ...
Title:S-Curve Redux: On the International Transmission of Technology Shocks
Author(s):ENDERS, Zeno; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series, we find that technology shocks induce an ‘S’-
shaped cross-correlation function for the trade balance and the terms of trade (S-curve). In calibrating
a prototypical ...
Title:Productivity, External Balance and Exchange Rates: Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism among G7 Countries
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper investigates the international transmission of productivity shocks
in a sample of ve G7 countries. For each country, using long-run restrictions,
we identify shocks that increase permanently domestic labor ...