Economic Policy in the International Economy (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honor of Assaf Razin
Redaktion: Helpman, Elhanan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book contains fifteen major essays on international economics. The authors investigate five principal themes: theory, and empirics, of financial issues in open economies; economic growth; public economies; and political economy. Written to honor Professor Assaf Razin of Tel Aviv and Cornell Universities on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, the essays pay close attention to policy issues as well as formal analysis. The contributors include renowned specialists in international economics based in North America, Europe, Israel, and China. This volume of advanced research will be of interest to scholars, policy makers, and advanced students alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511058691
• Artikelnr.: 38206007

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Financial Issues in Open Economies: Theory: 1. Crises: the next
generation? Paul Krugman; 2. Solutions to the 'devaluation bias': some
preventive measures to defend fixed exchange rates against self-fulfilling
attacks Chi-Wa Yuen; 3. Growth enhancing effects of bailout guarantees
Aaron Tornell; 4. Risk and exchange rates Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth S.
Rogoff; Part II. Financial Issues in Open Economies: Empirics: 5. Economic
integration, industrial specialization, and the asymmetry of macroeconomic
fluctuations Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E. Sorenson and Oved Yosha; 6.
Uncovered interest parity in crisis: the interest rate defense in the 1990s
Robert P. Flood and Andrew K. Rose; 7. When does capital account
liberalization help more than it hurts? Carlos Arteta, Barry Eichengreen
and Charles Wyplosz; 8. Sources of inflation in developing countries
Prakash Loungani and Phillip Swagel; Part III. Economic Growth: Theory and
Empirics: 9. Growth effects and the cost of business cycles Gadi Barlevy;
10. Explaining economic growth Yair Mundlak; Part IV. Public Economies: 11.
Simulating fundamental tax reform in the United States David Altig, Alan J.
Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent A. Smetters and Jan Walliser; 12. The
international macroeconomics of taxation and the case against European tax
harmonization Enrique G. Mendoza; 13. Home bias in portfolios and taxation
of asset income Roger H. Gordon and Vitor Gaspar; 14. Social dumping in the
transformation process; Part V. Political Economy: 15. Do political
institutions shape economic policy? Torsten Persson.