Economic policy in the international economy essays in honor of Assaf Razin

Razin, Assaf. (Added Author). Helpman, Elhanan. (Added Author). Sadka, Efraim. (Added Author).

Summary: 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. This volume of cutting edge research will be of interest to scholars, policy makers, and advanced students alike.

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ISBN: 0511065027 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511065026 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511073488 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 9780511073489 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 0511120702 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511120701 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780521815192 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0521815193 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0521815193
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 472 p.) : ill., map.
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Papers presented at a conference in honor of Assaf Razin's 60th birthday at the Tel Aviv University, Mar. 25-26, 2001.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 ... [et al.] -- 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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.