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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783121003321

Titolo

Economic policy in the international economy : essays in honor of Assaf Razin / / edited by Elhanan Helpman, Efraim Sadka [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-13394-7

1-280-16136-1

0-511-12070-2

1-139-14824-9

0-511-06502-7

0-511-05869-1

0-511-29776-9

0-511-61014-9

0-511-07348-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 472 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

Economic policy

Economic development

International finance

International economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Crises: the next generation? / Paul Krugman -- Solutions to the "devaluation bias": some preventive measures to defend fixed exchange rates against self-fulfilling attacks / Chi-Wa Yuen -- Growth-enhancing effects of bailout guarantees / Aaron Tornell -- Risk and exchange rates / Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth S. Rogoff -- Economic integration, industrial specialization, and the asymmetry of macroeconomic fluctuations / Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E. Sørensen, and Oved Yosha -- Uncovered interest parity in crisis: the interest rate defense in the 1990s / Robert P. Flood and Andrew K. Rose -- When does capital account liberalization help more than it



hurts? / Carlos Arteta, Barry Eichengreen, and Charles Wyplosz -- Sources of inflation in developing countries / Prakash Loungani and Phillip Swagel -- Growth effects and the cost of business cycles / Gadi Barlevy -- Explaining economic growth / Yair Mundlak -- Simulating fundamental tax reform in the United States / David Altig [and others] -- The international macroeconomics of taxation and the case against European tax harmonization / Enrique G. Mendoza -- Home bias in portfolios and taxation of asset income / Roger H. Gordon and Vitor Gaspar -- Social dumping in the transformation process? / Hans-Werner Sinn -- Do political institutions shape economic policy? / Torsten Persson.

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 2003, 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 avanced research will be of interest to scholars, policy makers, and advanced students alike.